The ripples suggest that the lake was free of ice at one point.

Martian clouds are almost always made of dry ice, or frozen carbon dioxide. 95% of the planet's atmosphere is CO2.

Social media users are swooning over images of heart shapes found on Mars. The series of pictures were captured from the Mars ...

"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." ...

What it is: Geysers of gas and dust on Mars Where it is: The south polar region of Mars When it was shared: Jan. 29, 2025 Why ...

This photograph of Mars highlights the planet's reddish appearance, caused by iron oxide (rust) on its surface, giving it the nickname "the red planet." The image shows Amazonis Planitia, a smooth ...

Mars is one of the most explored planets in our solar system. Over the years we have had robots roaming on the surface and NASA is working hard to land humans on the planet by the 2030s ...

How to watch the planet parade? To witness a planet parade, you can primarily use your naked eyes to see the brighter planets like Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn; however, for a better view of ...

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"And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars." Billionaire Elon Musk of SpaceX threw his hands up in the ...

The red planet's hot again, cold again history: Explaining persistent hydrogen in Mars' atmosphere by Anne J. Manning, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ...

Scientists with the Minor Planet Centre (MPC ... to quickly take a look at the Earth close approach dates and potential Mars close approach dates, to see if I could correlate those to a known ...