"There's a material footprint to this dispersal.” Mars, as our closest planetary neighbor, has been a primary focus of humanity's off-world exploration. Researchers estimate that, as of 2022 ...

Imagine you've just gotten to Mars as part of the first contingent of settlers. Your first challenge: build a long-term habitat using local materials. Those might include water from the polar caps ...

This NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image, acquired on May 13, 2018, during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows a carbon dioxide ice cap covering the region and as the sun returns in the spring, ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

An image of the rock shows crushed material with yellow crystals ... The discovery has drawn the attention of Mars scientists. “Finding a field of stones made of pure sulfur is like finding ...

Any vehicle traversing the rocky terrain on Mars needs a sturdy set of wheels. NASA’s Perseverance rover, for example, sports ...

At the Airbus Mars Yard in the UK ... to the fact that they are made from a nickel-titanium alloy which, as NASA materials research engineer Santo Padula explains in the following video, has ...

Mars has long posed a challenge to landers because ... different samples of different layers showing different ages of material and rocks, and when we bring back those 30 samples, it’s going ...

Dec. 16, 2024 — The combination of low temperature, atmospheric pressure and water vapor pressure on Mars means any liquid water found there would likely freeze, boil or evaporate immediately ...

A group of anthropologists led by Justin Holcomb, an assistant research professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas, is calling for NASA and other space agencies to catalog and preserve ...

But on Mars, everything happens with a bang," Serina ... the build up gets so powerful that it eventually fires up dark material into the air, leaving behind dark fans on the Martian surface.