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

Valles Marineris in imagery captured the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Global topography: NASA/GSFC CTX global mosaic: NASA/MSSS/Caltech/ CTX topography: NASA/MSSS/USGS HiRISE: NASA/U.Arizona/USGS/Amaz ...

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 ...

The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance from the star (an average of 142 million miles versus ...

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

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 ...

The importance of these ripples cannot be overemphasized as they provide clear evidence of the existence of a standing body of water on Mars approximately 3.7 billion years ago. This profound ...

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 ...