A Chinese rover found evidence of ancient beaches on Mars, suggesting the planet once had vast oceans 4 billion years ago. The discovery of sloping sand layers beneath the surface provides new ...

The holes, aka pits, are located on the flanks of ancient volcanoes in Mars's Tharsis region, the largest volcanic region on the red planet and home to some of the biggest volcanoes in our solar ...

Located in the western hemisphere of Mars, between the Tharsis and Amazonis Planitia volcanic regions, Olympus Mons beats the Mount Everest by almost three times. Olympus Mons is a shield volcano ...

Mars is a planet of extremes, and no region epitomizes this more than the Tharsis province, long recognized as a nexus of volcanic and tectonic activity 1.This province seems to be a giant ...

If the findings hold up, the buried shorelines tell a compelling story of the last days of oceans on Mars. Based on the ...

He revised that theory in 2017, suggesting that Mars' rotation actually changed while the Tharsis bulge formed, starting about 4 billion years ago. "Because the spin axis of Mars has changed ...

I work on MAVEN's IUVS instrument in order to understand topographic clouds over Mars' Tharsis region. I'm working to retrieve cloud morphologies from our data and compare our observations to global ...