Tag: mars
Comet inspires chemistry for making breathable oxygen on Mars
Although plentiful in modern Earth’s atmosphere, molecular oxygen is extremely rare in space. Only trace amounts have been found elsewhere in our solar system...
Send your name to fly aboard next mars rover
NASA is giving the public an opportunity to send their names — stenciled on chips — to the Red Planet with NASA's Mars 2020...
Martian full moon looks like candy
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, for the first time, has captured the Martian moon Phobos during a full moon phase. The image is a kind...
InSight captured Martian sunrise and sunset
NASA's stationary InSight lander is spending two years on Mars learning everything it can about the deep interior of the Red Planet. Recently, it...
NASA’s InSight Detects First Likely Marsquake
NASA's Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely "marsquake."
The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander's Seismic...
Curiosity tastes first sample in Clay-Bearing Unit
Scientists working with NASA's Curiosity Mars rover have been excited to explore a region called "the clay-bearing unit" since before the spacecraft launched. Now,...
NASA’s Curiosity captured two solar eclipses on Mars
When NASA's Curiosity Mars rover landed in 2012, it brought along eclipse glasses. The solar filters on its Mast Camera (Mastcam) allow it to...
Water carved deep riverbeds on Mars into its history
According to a new study by University of Chicago scientists, water-carved deep riverbeds into the Mar's surface, but what kind of weather is responsible...
NASA’s Curiosity rover spots a bed of Earth-like pebbles
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has recently captured a bed of pebbles that look like they could be sitting along a riverbed right here on...
