Set in a 738 acre Denver Mountain Park, Red Rocks Amphitheatre is no ordinary stage — it’s also a geological wonder. Discover ...

The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off centre to the top left and bottom right. Clouds wrap around the planet’s curved horizons. Dark surface markings are clearly seen ...

The merry month of May used to be an outlier on the Red Rocks Amphitheatre calendar, and any artist that dared book past September tempted the wrath of show-stopping cold and snow. These days ...

"Mars is still the Red Planet. It’s just that our understanding ... for Mars' red dust is a combination of basaltic volcanic rock and a water-rich iron oxide called ferrihydrite.

At some point in the Red Planet’s 4.5 to 4.6 billion year history, the iron bound up in its rocks reacted with water and oxygen in the air, similar to how rust forms here on Earth. The resulting ...

which won't happen until soil and rock from the Red Planet is brought back to Earth. “We eagerly await the results from upcoming missions like ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover and the NASA-ESA ...

Scientists previously believed that its rust-red colour ... covers the planet is what gives Mars its red hue, CNN reported. Similar to the process on Earth, when iron in the rocks interacted ...

And the best way to tell will be to obtain actual samples of rocks and dust from the red planet. The Perseverance rover has already collected multiple samples containing both, and NASA and ESA are ...

We’ve always known Mars as the Red Planet — but it turns out, we may have had the reason why wrong. If so, it could revise much of what we know about the history of our smaller neighbor planet.

The fourth planet from the Sun is famously a rusty red—but scientists now believe ... We found that ferrihydrite mixed with basalt, a volcanic rock, best fits the minerals seen by spacecraft ...

The planet Mars is famous for its rusty red colour. But how did our closest planet neighbour turn this shade? For years scientists thought they had the answer, but new research suggests it could ...