Scientists believe this region may have held an ocean approximately 3.7 billion years ago, a theory supported by recent findings from the Zhurong mission. READ MORE :Biggest Proof Mediterranean Diet Leads to Healthy Brain Aging Discovered in New Study Chinese Rover Finds Evidence of Ancient ...
Technology Unlocks a New Era of Mars Exploration “The capabilities of the Zhurong rover have allowed us to understand the geologic history of the planet in an entirely new way,” said Michael Manga, professor of Earth and planetary science at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, and a corresp...
RecentMars Expressdata reveals the Medusae Fossae Formation contains extensive water ice layers, offering new clues aboutMars’s past and supporting future exploration. Windswept piles of dust, or layers of ice?ESA’s Mars Expresshas revisited one of Mars’s most mysterious features to clarify its ...
The lead scientist for NASA's Mars rover exploration team (Steve Squyres) has announced that recent images beamed back by the Opportunity rover show a rock sitting in a place nearby where there wasn't one just twelve days prior. The image, he says, has caused quite a commotion with the ...
Recent Mars exploration missions have reported conclusive evidence for the past existence of liquid water and a thicker atmosphere and the global-scale transition to the currently cold desert-like surface condition (e.g., Bibring et al. 2006; Carr and Head 2010; Ehlmann and Edwards 2014; Usui...
This unusual meteorite's chemistry matches that of the Martian crust as measured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars Odyssey Orbiter. "This Martian meteorite has everything in its composition that you'd want in order to further our understanding of the Red Planet," said Carl Agee, ...
While large sections of Mars science have made progress and new topics have emerged, a major question in Mars exploration—the possibility of past or present life—is still unsolved. Without entering into the debate around the presence of life traces, our review develops various topics of Mars ...
She has been involved in the landing site selection process for the Mars Exploration Rovers “Spirit” and “Opportunity”, and the Mars Science Laboratory “Curiosity”, and also in the planning stages for the Mars Sample Return mission. When she is not teaching undergraduate geology, or ...
Steve Squyres, the principal scientific investigator for the spectacularly successful Mars Exploration Rovers, summarized their most recent science findings - which seem to center around the fact that, while they have indeed discovered proof that some places on Noachian-era Mars were exposed to enough...
Michael Meyer (L), Lead Scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, and Bruce Jakosky (R), MAVEN's principal investigator, discuss recent findings by the MAVEN mission at NASA headquarters November 5, 2015 in Washington, DC. During a one year period that NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volati...