Mars

Sinuous Gullies Snake Down Sand Dune on Mars (Photo)0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 1, 2017
These Martian gullies may be linear, but they’re far from straight.

By David Aragorn
Martian Ridge Brings Out Rover’s Color Talents 0
- Earth Mysteries
- November 1, 2017
Color-discerning capabilities that NASA’s Curiosity rover has been using on Mars since 2012 are proving particularly helpful on a mountainside ridge the rover is now climbing.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s MAVEN mission finds Mars has a twisted magnetic tail 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 24, 2017
Mars has an invisible magnetic ‘tail’ that is twisted by interaction with the solar wind, according to new research using data from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft.

By David Aragorn
A solar-powered asteroid nursery at the orbit of Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 20, 2017
The planet Mars shares its orbit with a handful of small asteroids, the so-called Trojans. Among them, one finds a unique group, all moving in very similar orbits, suggesting that they originated from the same object.

By David Aragorn
NASA: Recent Solar Storm Sparked Global Aurora on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 13, 2017
A solar event on September 11, 2017 sparked a global aurora on the Red Planet more than 25 times brighter than any previously seen by NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft. The event also produced radiation levels on the Martian surface more than double any previously measured by NASA’s Curiosity rover.

By David Aragorn
Mars Study Yields Clues to Possible Cradle of Life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 7, 2017
The discovery of evidence for ancient sea-floor hydrothermal deposits on Mars identifies an area on the planet that may offer clues about the origin of life on Earth.

By David Aragorn
MAJOR SPACE WEATHER EVENT ON MARS 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 6, 2017
More than 150 years after it happened, scientists are still taking about the Carrington Event—a solar storm in Sept. 1859 that sparked Northern Lights as far south as Cuba and sprayed the entire surface of Earth with high energy radiation.

By David Aragorn
A Dog-Killing Meteorite Just Rewrote Mars’ Volcanic History 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 5, 2017
How something as small as meteorites can change how we view something as big as Mars.

By David Aragorn
Lockheed Martin unveils reusable water-powered Mars lander 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 30, 2017
Governments and private firms are collaborating on projects to send humans to new frontiers, with NASA planning missions to the space between the earth and moon to prepare for trips to Mars.

By David Aragorn
Elon Musk: SpaceX can colonise Mars and build moon base 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 30, 2017
Musk says project codenamed BFR would also allow commercial travel to anywhere on Earth in under an hour

By David Aragorn