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HiRISE, the most powerful camera to leave Earth's orbit, will take ultra-sharp photographs that cover 3.5-mile-wide swaths of the Martian landscape, returning images with a 20,000-by-60,000 pixel ...

The engineering lesson is simple: Sometimes the best observatory is the one already parked at another planet. When an interstellar comet was in a viewing geometry that kept Earth-based telescopes too ...

Martian winds can have quite an impact. ESA's Mars Express has spotted them whipping up sand grains and acting as a cosmic sandblaster, carving out intriguing grooves near Mars's equator. The ridges, ...

Cameras developed by 35 students at Northern Arizona University, as part of NASA's Escapade Mission, are on there way to Mars. A 14-year-old won $25,000 for origami. He discovered a pattern that can ...

NASA has released a stunning high-resolution image of Mars taken by its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The picture was captured using the powerful HiRISE camera and shows a very young impact crater in ...

Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean.

NASA's sharp-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) just notched a big milestone. MRO's HiRISE ("High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment") camera has now snapped 100,000 photos of the surface of ...