The titanium sample tubes contain air from Mars. While the primary focus of the Mars Sample Return campaign has been on gathering rock cores and regolith to search for signs of ancient ...
more Curiosity “breathes” the air on Mars and analyzes it to determine the levels of various types of gasses that are present. On Earth, the background levels of certain gasses rise and fall ...
Moving on from the success of the Ingenuity drone, NASA has released a rendering of its next-generation vehicle for aerial flight on Mars, known as the Mars Chopper.
From its vantage point in space, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently captured a glimpse of the inactive InSight lander. The new images serve not only as a final farewell to the lander, but also ...
About 11 million years ago, an asteroid collided with Mars, sending plumes of debris beyond the planet’s atmosphere. One of those meteorites eventually succumbed to Earth’s gravitational pull ...
Debris from ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars could offer new clues in the search ... concluded that they were likely laid down from the air, potentially as volcanic ash, billions of years ...