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New research suggests ancient Mars may have been warm and wet, with rainfall or snowmelt carving its iconic valleys.
"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." ...
Since its touchdown in Jezero Crater in February 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover has steadily explored Martian rocks. From ...
WASHINGTON — A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ancient past when it ...
A team of scientists has uncovered new details about Mars’ Jezero Crater using the Perseverance rover's cutting-edge ...
Scientists have pondered why Mars seemed to be missing sufficient carbonates indicative of its warm, wet past. Now, NASA’s ...
Researchers use the sophisticated technology on NASA's Perseverance rover to analyze volcanic rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater. Their findings show that some of the same volcanic processes that led to ...
In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...
NASA's Curiosity rover has found iron-rich carbonates on Mars, offering new clues about the planet's ancient climate and ...
In part of Jezero Crater known as the Shenandoah formation, two generations of calcium sulfate minerals formed beneath the ...
A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red ...