Mars

New Color Image Shows Opportunity Rover from Orbit

[/caption] Another great shot by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter: this one of the Opportunity rover sitting…

13 years ago

Vast Areas of Low Latitude Subsurface Ice Found on Mars

[/caption] There could be more subsurface ice on Mars than previously thought, and vast stretches of it may lie just…

13 years ago

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…

13 years ago

Active Changes Occuring in Mars’ Northern Hemisphere

[/caption] Mars, it is a-changin’, and more than scientists expected. Several series of before-and-after images taken by the HiRISE camera…

13 years ago

Simulated Mars Mission Arrives in Simulated Orbit

[/caption] Six men from Europe, Russia and China on a 520-day mock mission to Mars, have now reached the point…

13 years ago

“Marstinis” Could Help Explain Why the Red Planet is So Small

[/caption] Mars is a small planet. In fact, for scientists who do solar system modeling, the planet is too small.…

13 years ago

Martian Meteorite Reveals Ancient Water Flows, Methane

[/caption] Scientists say a close-up look inside rare meteorite fragments from Mars shows evidence that impacts created flowing water near…

13 years ago

Spots Among Spots on Mars

[/caption] This unusual landscape on Mars can be found within a crater on the southern hemisphere of the Red Planet.…

13 years ago

All-Student Crew Lands at Mars Research Station

[/caption] Headline from the future? Actually, it’s happening now, although not quite on Mars, but about as close as humans…

13 years ago

Groovin’ to the Latest Images from Mars

The folks from the HiRISE Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have put together a video with some groovin' music…

13 years ago