Mars
News Archive on Mars Exploration, Mars Terraforming, Martian Atmosphere Dust Liquid water Methane, Martian mineralogy, Red Planet Rover Mission, ExoMars, Moons Phobos Deimos, Water on Mars, InSight lander and MarCO CubeSats.
Our news archives includes Mars missions such as Mars Mariner program Rovers, Odyssey, Pathfinder, Reconnaissance Orbiter, Viking program.
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Dec 22, 2018NASA's InSight lander is due to set its first science instrument on Mars in the coming days. But engineers here on Earth already saw it happen - last week. -
Dec 3, 2018With InSight safely on the surface of Mars, the mission team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is busy learning more about the spacecraft's landing site. -
Nov 29, 2018MarCO-B, one of the experimental Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats, took this image of Mars from about 4,700 miles (7,600 kilometers) away during its flyby of the Red Planet on Nov. 26, 2018. -
Nov 27, 2018NASA's InSight lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile journey from Earth. -
Nov 26, 2018InSight won't be looking for life on Mars. But studying its insides could help scientists better understand how a planet's starting materials make it more or less likely to support life. -
Nov 22, 2018Computer models shine a light on the origin of the Mars moon Phobos’ distinctive grooves. -
Nov 19, 2018NASA has chosen Jezero Crater as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission after a five year search, during which every available detail of more than 60 candidate locations on the Red Planet was scrutinized and debated by the mission team and -
Nov 18, 2018Today, most of the water on Mars is locked away in frozen ice caps. But billions of years ago it flowed freely across the surface, forming rushing rivers that emptied into craters, forming lakes and seas. -
Nov 17, 2018When rains fell on the arid Atacama Desert, it was reasonable to expect floral blooms to follow. Instead, the water brought death. -
Nov 14, 2018The Atacama Desert, the driest and oldest desert on Earth, located in northern Chile, hides a hyper-arid core in which no rain has been recorded during the past 500 years. But this situation has changed in the last three years.
