Huge Martian Impact Basin Comes With Unique and “Enigmatic” Feature
30 Dec 2021, 10:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / HiRISE image shows so-called banded terrain in the deepest part of the Hellas Planitia basin, NASA scientists call the feature enigmatic
Yellow Speck on Mars Took Two Years to Form, Looks Like a Cave Painting of an Alien Beast
29 Dec 2021, 12:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Two photos of Mars snapped by the HiRISE camera over the span of just two years shows a bright yellow formation appearing in an unnamed crater
Color-Enhanced Martian Surface Looks Like Some Piece of Cracked Wood
28 Dec 2021, 10:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / HiRISE image of the plains south of Valles Marineris gets color enhanced to show many features that might have otherwise been invisible
Frozen Mars Crater Looks Like Red Velvet Cake With Powdered Sugar on Top
28 Dec 2021, 01:47 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Just in time for the festive season, we're getting an image from Mars captured by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter showing an interesting-looking Mars crater
Dark Sand Formations on Mars Seem Disturbingly Artificial and Organized
27 Dec 2021, 13:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Image taken by the HiRISE camera in orbit around Mars shows dark sand formations on the surface, in the Nilosyrtis region
Four Tightly Packed Impact Craters on Mars Show How Good the Solar System’s Aim Is
26 Dec 2021, 11:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Image taken by the HiRISE camera in orbit around Mars shows four impact craters close together, both primary and secondary
Martian Impact Crater Looks Like the Mouth of Shai-Hulud
25 Dec 2021, 11:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Yet another photo of yet another impact crater on the surface of Mars has us face to what with what looks like Shai-Hulud's big mouth and many teeth
Big Nose and Half of a Face Seem to Be Lurking Underground in Creepy Photo of Mars
20 Dec 2021, 12:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Another image of Mars taken by the HiRISE back in 2017 camera seems to be showing two half-faces under the surface of Mars
Colorful Collection of Martian Rocks Has Humans Dreaming of Snatching Some Samples
19 Dec 2021, 09:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / HiRISE image captured from the orbit of Mars shows floor of the Coprates Chasma, a large canyon included in the Valles Marineris
This Is All That’s Left of Mars’ Once Raging Rivers
18 Dec 2021, 07:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Image of the Martian region of Tader Valles taken by the HiRISE camera up in orbit shows the remnants of what once might have been raging rivers
Significant Amounts of Water Found in Mars’ Valles Marineris, Hidden in the Ground
17 Dec 2021, 10:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected large amounts of hydrogen in Martian canyon, could be a sign of massive amounts of water
Noctis Labyrinthus Is Where You Could Get Lost on Mars, Here’s a Slice of It
16 Dec 2021, 15:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Photo showing a small portion of the Noctis Labyrinthus region of Mars reveals one more the strangeness of a planet we might once call our second home
Perseverance Has Been Roving on Hard Martian Magma, Ground-Level Images Are Stunning
16 Dec 2021, 10:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA reveals that the Perseverance rover has been moving over what once was red hot magma in the Jezero Crater, also detects water was there
NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Completes More Than 30 Minutes of Flight Time on Mars
16 Dec 2021, 01:26 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / Flying in the thin atmosphere of Mars is no easy feat, but NASA's chopper proved that it's possible as it has accumulated more than 30 minutes of flight time
Playmobil Mars Expedition Comes With a Trike and Drilling Station
15 Dec 2021, 12:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Toymaker Playmobil and the European Space Agency joined hands to release a Mars Expedition set just in time for the winter holidays
NASA Testing Tech for “Most Sophisticated” Mission Ever: Stealing Rocks From Mars
14 Dec 2021, 14:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA has already begun testing the technologies that will make the Mars Sample Return mission possible by the end of the decade
Elon Musk Will Build a Futuristic Noah’s Ark to Help With Colonizing Mars
14 Dec 2021, 04:42 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / SpaceX CEO says first landing on Mars should be within the next five years and colonization will follow suit, with a “self-sustaining city” first
NASA Is Slamming Spacecraft to the Ground for a Good Reason
14 Dec 2021, 02:39 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA is testing spacecraft and hardware by dropping them on the ground repeatedly. This will help the agency prepare for a future sample return mission
Martian Gullies Look Like a Herd of Giant Alien Creatures, With Babies
13 Dec 2021, 16:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Photo of an undisclosed portion of Mars shows "particularly large" gullies on the surface, one of the many strange features of the planet
Largest Volcano on Mars Shows Vein-Like Structure in Photo Taken From Space
12 Dec 2021, 12:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This image taken by the HiRISE camera high in orbit around the planet shows the planet's biggest volcano in terms of surface area, Alba Mons