"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." ...

Interesting Engineering (IE) walks you through ten spectacular geological features on Mars ... Crater was the result of a ...

As it whooshed over the Gale Crater on February 28, the orbiter snapped a picture of the rover, which appears as a tiny black ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a haunting rock formation on Mars that looks unsettlingly like a skull. Dubbed "Skull Hill," the jet-black outcrop is so bizarre and out of place that even ...

Mars may have experienced rainfall and river flow billions of years ago, reshaping the Red Planet's surface and supporting a once wetter and warmer climate, according to a new study published in ...

“The discovery of abundant siderite in Gale Crater represents both a surprising and important breakthrough in our ...

In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben Tutolo, a University of Calgary associate professor of Earth, Energy, and ...

Through the geological process called plate tectonics, this rock is reheated and the carbon is ultimately released again into the atmosphere through volcanism. Mars, however, lacks plate tectonics.

The US Geological Survey and the German Research ... It has been thought that plate tectonics were a significant factor in the shaping of our planet and the evolution of life. Mars and Venus don't ...

"The discovery of large carbon deposits in Gale Crater represents both a surprising and important breakthrough in our understanding of the geologic and atmospheric evolution of Mars," says Tutolo.

"But we see these valleys beginning at a large range of elevations ... what's interesting is that hints about Mars' temperate past are also seen in the geological features on Earth.