From geophysical and astronomical measurements, we also know the crust of Mars is significantly thicker beneath the southern ...

The research, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, suggests that the thick crust of Mars' southern highlands formed billions of years ago generated granitic magmas and sustained vast ...

Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

The study of ancient lava formations on Mars is the most complete to date from a series of observations conducted on the ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

According to recent research and professionals the geothermal energy potentially boiling beneath the Mars’ crust may be an answer to supplying future colonies. In this article, the author looks at the ...

The research, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, suggests that the thick crust of Mars’ southern highlands formed billions of years ago generated granitic magmas and sustained ...

Debris from ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars could offer new clues in the ... rocks is that upwelling of groundwater from within the crust once filled the bottom of these impact craters ...

The new work suggests that the edge of the dichotomy was eroded back by hundreds of kilometers during the time when an ocean ...

These meteorite samples suggest that Mars formed a core, mantle and crust very early in its history and then sat quietly. In contrast, nakhlites are 1.3 billion years old and indicate that Mars ...