The area containing the clay-bearing mounds is geologically connected to Oxia Planum, which is where Rosalind Franklin will ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.

Many years before President Trump expressed his intention to send an American crewed mission to Mars, Wernher von Braun ...

Researchers believe dark rocks at the site of a future Mars rover landing mission may be left over from ancient volcanic eruptions, and may be protecting signs of life — if there ever was life ...

Twenty years before Neil Armstrong uttered his memorable words on the Moon about one small step for man but a giant leap for ...

The orbiter is being used to identify minerals and individual rock outcrops - information needed to choose future Mars landing sites. Alfred McEwen, HiRISE principal investigator, is involved in ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

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Glance at a list of artificial objects on Mars and you’ll discover that the red planet is covered in remnant-strewn landing sites. Some have been pinpointed and examined from orbit while others ...

The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics ...

Such as, say, Mars. So [Matthew Earl] sought to give Perseverance rover’s landing video some context by projecting onto orbital imagery from ESA’s Mars Express. The resulting video (embedded ...

The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, ...