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A new global map of Mars offers a fresh perspective on the planet. The map, released earlier this month, was pieced together from 3,000 pictures taken by the United Arab Emirates’ Hope spacecraft, ...
Detailed imaging of the surface of Mars from orbit has allowed space scientists to produce the most detailed geological map yet of part of the Red Planet. The new map was released on Friday, 12 ...
A new map of Mars is changing the way we think about the planet’s watery past, and showing where we should land in the future. The map shows mineral deposits across the planet and has been ...
NASA scientists have uncovered an unexpected presence inside Mars, a solid mass around 373 miles in size. This finding has ...
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There is now little doubt we humans will eventually get to Mars. It seems that, somehow, humanity has always known that. Yet only in recent years we got to see not only talk of Mars missions ...
It's only in the last few years that scientists have been able to map the red planet's interior structure. That's because ...
One of the challenges of sending human explorers to Mars is that, due to the logistics of the journey, they will have to be on the planet’s surface for considerably longer than the missions of a few ...
Viking 2, a Mars lander nearly identical to Viking 1, successfully landed on Mars approximately one month after Viking 1's ...
When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars next year, it will be equipped with some of the most precise maps of Mars ever created, courtesy of the USGS Astrogeology Science Center. Not only ...
(CNN) — One day, we could be Martians. Not the luminous green blobs with three eyes and wobbly antennae, but humans, born and raised on the Red Planet. But accurate land maps and local weather data ...