The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

In addition, Mars’s orbit is less circular than Earth’s ... Not so today: Though water ice abounds under the Martian surface and in its polar ice caps, there are no large bodies of liquid ...

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has spotted "spiders" on the Red Planet's southern polar region. But they're not the arachnids we fear or adore back on Earth — they're the ...

Like Earth, Mars has polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and deserts. This image was stitched together from a series of photos from the Viking Orbiter — one of the communications relay stations ...

What it is: Geysers of gas and dust on Mars Where it is: The south polar region of Mars When it ... This image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) in 2018 and was reshared by ...

"Hindsight is always 100 percent, but if they (the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander) were a little less cheap, they would have been better," he said. Next year's launch of a Mars lander of ...

Data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, together with ground-based measurements from NASA Mars rovers Curiosity, Pathfinder and Opportunity, also helped make the case for ferrihydrite.

CREDIT: A.Valantinas. “This study is the result of the complementary datasets from the fleet of international missions exploring Mars from orbit and at ground level,” Colin Wilson, the ...

Since the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft launched in late February as a rideshare spacecraft along with a Falcon 9 launch, NASA has been providing a series of increasingly worrisome updates about the ...

These include missions to Mars, the lunar polar regions, and a solar polar orbit telescope project. The 57-meter high, 867,000-kilogram launcher has an optional third stage, employed in today’s ...

The polar ice cap at the south pole is particularly ... datasets from the fleet of international missions exploring Mars from orbit and at ground level,” says Colin Wilson, ESA’s TGO and ...