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A New Map Shows Where Mars is Hiding all its Ice
Water will be one of the most important resources for human explorers on Mars. They'll need it for drinking, propellant,…
Mars Lacks a Planet-Wide Magnetosphere, but it Does Have Pockets of Magnetism
China's Zhurong rover measured the magnetic environment on Mars, which is helping scientists narrow down when its global magnetic field…
How Much Carbon Dioxide Snow Falls Every Winter on Mars?
New research hows how changes in the size of the Martian polar ice caps are associated with annual changes in…
What Does Earth Look like from Mars?
Earth has been photographed multiple times from Mars, both from orbit (by orbital missions) and from the surface (rover missions).
How Many Moons Does Mars Have?
Many of the planets in our Solar System have a system of moons. But among the rocky planets that make…
Nobody Knows What These Mysterious Plumes are on Mars
In March 2012, amateur astronomers began observing unusual clouds or plumes along the western limb of the red planet Mars.…
Weather Forecasting on Mars Likely to be Trickier Than on Earth
Predicting the weather here on Earth is never an easy thing, but predicting it on Mars may be ever trickier.…
For Valentine’s Day, Enjoy These Hearts On Earth, Mars And Other Places
A Valentine from Earth. pic.twitter.com/7FEIIddAJB — Karen L. Nyberg (@AstroKarenN) February 14, 2014 While we're unsure about the status of…
From Mars with Love on Valentines Day
[/caption] Happy Valentine’s Day from Mars to all the readers of Universe Today ! Well it’s truly a solar system…
Carbon Dioxide — Not Water — Creating Gullies on Mars, New Study Says
[/caption] Intriguing images of brand new, fresh gullies on Mars has most of us thinking of one thing: water. But…