There's Ice on Mars, Just Under the Surface

There's Ice on Mars, Just Under the Surface

Mars holds two of humanity's greatest space ambitions, discovering alien life and establishing our first foothold on another world. Key to both is the discovery of water. We know it's at the poles, but where could we find it at lower latitudes? In a new paper, researchers carefully examined images of Mars taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. They found examples of features, like "brain coral terrain", expanded craters, and ridges which are …

Clay Minerals From Mars’ Most Ancient Past? - NASA Science

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Geomorphological Evidence of Near‐Surface Ice at Candidate Landing Sites in Northern Amazonis Planitia, Mars - Astrobiology

This work presents geomorphological analyses of an area at the boundary between Arcadia Planitia and northern Amazonis Planitia

Smashing Success: Drilling Failure Leads to New Discovery on Mars

Sometimes our robotic exploration of another world doesn’t go as planned… Sometimes a Mars rover drilling operation fails to collect a rock sample…   And sometimes this can lead to a discovery that no one anticipated. Mars Guy details a drilling failure of the NASA Perseverance rover at Jezero Crater that leads to new […]