NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHU-APL NASA recently released the first part of a highly detailed map of almost the entire surface of Mars, in the form of a 5.6 gigapixel image in 72 colors. This was created ...

Recent advancements in space exploration have unveiled astonishing discoveries beneath the surface of Mars, revealing ...

NASA’s Viking mission identified – among many other fascinating things – some curious dark streaks following downward slopes ...

CRISM’s job is to produce maps of Mars’ surface mineralogy. It’s been an enormous success, but unfortunately, the loss of its last cryocooler in 2017 means the spectrometer can only ...

There’s long been conspiracy theories about the dark markings found the planet’s surface, with scientists having their own ...

As MRO orbits around Mars, the CTX camera has taken images of practically the entire surface, making it the obvious choice for creating a map. However, stitching together thousands of images into ...

Maps of Mars are nothing new ... have generally swooped much closer to the Martian surface, usually in orbits devised to repeatedly pass above a given location at the same time of day.

This allowed the researchers to locate the most likely areas of ice beneath the surface. The newest maps use high-resolution cameras on the orbiting Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission to look at ...

Although the map doesn’t provide all the answers ... some of them may even still have water ice buried beneath the surface. More: Mars Is Hiding Its ‘Lost’ Water Beneath the Surface ...

when Mars was only fleetingly in focus. By the mid-19th century, the quest to map the Martian surface had reached a fever pitch. Through a telescope, its milky, shadowy face swam in and out of ...

NASA The close-up studies of the Martian surface by Curiosity and Perseverance show that clays are present on Mars. As such, it only makes sense for water also to be present. This new map is ...