Dust storms triggered the loss of massive amounts of water from high in Mars’ atmosphere, according to new analysis of data collected by NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. For the first time, water has been tracked all the way into Mars’ upper atmosphere, say the authors of a new paper appearing in the journal Science.
If you could travel back in time 3.5 billion years, what would Mars look like? The picture is evolving among scientists working with NASA’s Curiosity rover.
Observations by ESA’s Mars Express orbiter show evidence of an ancient planet-wide groundwater system on the Red Planet.
Lava flow: an unstoppable destructive force that burns pretty much everything in its path. When a volcano erupts, it’s important that people in surrounding areas have adequate time to evacuate. To provide those crucial extra hours, or minutes, researchers are using drones to improve hazard predictions, and perhaps tell us something about life on ancient Mars.
It was warm and wet right around the time life got its start on Earth.
New research suggests that active volcanoes on the Red Planet could have created an environment habitable to ancient microbes.
Possibly a ‘Archaeological Site’ spotted in NASA “Global Mars Surveyor Mission” photo.
It is clear now that a big fraction of the atmosphere of Mars was stripped away to space early in its history.
“The possibility that a large ocean once occupied the Martian northern plains is one of the most important and controversial hypotheses to have originated from the exploration of Mars,” the researchers wrote in the study.
Around the same time that the dinosaurs became extinct on Earth, a volcano on Mars went dormant, NASA researchers have learned.
