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EVEN though humans have never set foot on Mars, we’ve still got plenty of photos of the red planet. And if you went by those ...
Data from the Mars Express orbiter has been used to create a visualization of "a vast system of deep and steep valleys that ...
Mars Express started orbiting the Red Planet in 2003 and still has nine years to go. This is possible thanks to a software ...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover made skywatching history in March, becoming the first robot to witness auroras from the ...
The study proposes that fine dust particles from the Martian atmosphere settle on sloped terrain. Events like wind gusts, ...
For decades, scientists believed that Mars’s famous red hue came mainly from hematite, a dry iron oxide mineral. However, a ...
Captured by the Orbiter's High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, the shot was taken on February 28 this year; this was the 4,455th day of Curiosity's mission after it touched down ...
An artist's conception of the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter flying above Mars. Credit: ESA / Alex Lutkus Long ago, Mars teemed with water. New imagery captured by the European Space ...
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a spectrometer also on board the Trace Gas Orbiter, and HRSC, or high resolution stereo camera, an older camera onboard the ESA Mars Express orbiter, a spacecraft launched in 2003. Valantinas says ...