placing Mars at its closest to Earth. The result is a dazzling display as Mars appears larger, brighter, and more prominent than usual. Its rusty-red glow and distinctive features will be on full ...

Scientists are cataloging and analyzing the first samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover while the agency weighs its ...

Coming less than two hours after ... called it the full hunger moon. Earth is catching up to Mars in the orbital race, which means the Red Planet is getting bigger and brighter.

The image below, taken by the European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter (which arrived at Mars in 2016), shows one of the ...

Like Earth and Venus, Mars has mountains ... orbits Mars every 30 hours and is less than 10 miles across. Its larger sibling Phobos bears many scars, including craters and deep grooves running ...

Mars' atmosphere is 100 times thinner than Earth's. Because Mars' atmosphere ... Now, you could make your parachute larger to slow down more. And that's partly what NASA does.

The days (known as ‘sols’) are only slightly longer than a day on Earth — by about 40 minutes. Because Mars is farther away than Earth, the sun looks twice as small. At night, the dark sky ...

That’s because at opposition, Mars is about as close to Earth as it will get during this ... Mars will also appear larger than at any other time this year. Astronomers use angles to measure ...

Imagine you could vacation on Mars. At first glance ... North Pole Our first stop, the North Pole. This ice cap is bigger than Texas, and is mostly covered in water ice and solid carbon dioxide ...

Meanwhile, the Perseverance rover that collected the more-than two-dozen ... get them back to Earth. For years, the U.S. space agency's Perseverance rover has been scouring Mars and scooping ...