Mars

Earthly Microbes Might Survive on Mars for Hundreds of Millions of Years 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 8, 2022
An organism nicknamed “Conan the Bacterium” may have what it takes to live on Mars

By David Aragorn
Mysterious bundle of string on Mars’ surface found by Perseverance rover0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 10, 2022
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured an unusual image of something lying in the red sand of Mars: a bundle of string.

By David Aragorn
Curiosity Has Found Some Truly Weird-Looking, Twisty Rock Towers on Mars0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 15, 2022
The Curiosity rover has found an outstanding rock formation piercing the alien landscape of Mars. Amongst the shallow sands and boulders of the Gale Crater rise several twisting towers of rock – the spikes of sediment look almost like frozen streams of water poured from an invisible jug in the sky.

By David Aragorn
Rings in ‘tree stump’ crater found on Mars illuminate red planet’s past climate 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 16, 2022
At first glance, it looks like a tree stump but the circular feature in a newly released image captured by the ExoMars orbiter is actually an ice-rich crater on Mars.

By David Aragorn
Mars ‘asteroid showers’ have stayed steady over 600 million years 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 16, 2022
We might have to rethink the pace of Red Planet crater formation.

By David Aragorn
Hope for present-day Martian groundwater dries up in new study 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 31, 2022
Liquid water previously detected under Mars’ ice-covered south pole is probably just a dusty mirage, according to a new study of the red planet led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Curiosity rover measures intriguing carbon signature on Mars 0
- Earth Mysteries
- January 21, 2022
Source: Phys.org The type of carbon is associated with biological processes on Earth. Curiosity scientists offer several explanations for the unusual carbon signals. After analyzing powdered rock samples collected from the surface of Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover, scientists have announced that several of the samples are rich in a type of carbon that on Earth is

By David Aragorn
NASA’s top scientist retires, has a plan to make Mars habitable 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 14, 2022
NASA’s top scientist has worked his final days, and now he’s moving on to greener … planets?

By David Aragorn
New Satellite Photo of Tiny Perseverance on Mars Will Give You All The Feelings 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 30, 2021
Occasionally, as various orbiters make their rounds of Mars, they spot their ground-based friends far below.

By David Aragorn
A Mars Rover Explored a Wasteland and Found an Oasis 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 20, 2021
Billions of years ago, the view from the edge of Jezero crater would have been “spectacular.”

By David Aragorn