China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 extended festival greetings to the Chinese people with stunning video footage captured by a camera on its orbiter to snap selfies above the red planet on Monday, the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
We continue to characterize "The Prow," which stands proud above nearby flat lying dust coated bedrock.
A few specialist microbes survive conditions analogous to those of Mars' early history, reports a new publication in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science-and this may be thanks to a broad range of adaptations.
This feature could easily be mistaken for a tree stump with characteristic concentric rings.
The final two pebbles hitching a ride aboard our rover's bit carousel are gone but not forgotten.
Volcanoes, impact craters, tectonic faults, river channels and a lava sea: a vast amount of information is captured in a relatively small area in this geologically rich new image from ESA's Mars Express.
In the last blog my colleague Lucy expressed excited hope for today's planning of close-up imagery of the rocks we tried to approach at 'The Prow.' But, well, sometimes Mars does not read the script.
Mars once rippled with rivers and ponds billions of years ago, providing a potential habitat for microbial life.
These images, created using data acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter, show the Jovis Tholus volcano…
The weekend plan included a short drive (or bump) to get us closer to one of the interesting, more resistant ledges that are exposed in this area ("The Prow"), as Curiosity continues her climb up Mount Sharp.
A Southwest Research Institute scientist measured the properties of ice-brine mixtures as cold as -145 degrees Fahrenheit to help confirm that salty water likely exists between grains of ice or sediment under the ice cap at Mars' south pole.
Have you ever wondered how a coring bit grabs and holds onto a rock core?
A satellite on a science mission to Mars aims for a low-altitude orbit, but the lower the orbit, the more propellant is required to enter orbit when arriving from Earth.
Liquid water previously detected under Mars' ice-covered south pole is probably just a dusty mirage, according to a new study of the red planet led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.
On Wednesday we collected our first MAHLI images of the outcrops we've been studying the last few sols, and then drove back to the Prow to give us another chance to investigate the fascinating sedimentary structures we see preserved in this region.
New Curtin University research has confirmed the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars has been consistent over the past 600 million years.
