In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben Tutolo, a University of Calgary associate professor of Earth, Energy, and ...

Challenges to Mars construction Of course, there are other factors besides material availability at work in such a ...

A new NASA study is putting future astronaut gear to the test—right on the Martian surface—with the help of the Perseverance rover. In a recent article, researchers detailed how the ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to achieve this could be to bombard the Red Planet with water-rich asteroids.

The team is working to understand climate transitions and habitability on ancient Mars as Curiosity explores ... an iron carbonate material, within sulfate-rich layers of Mount Sharp in Gale ...

The vast Thaumasia plateau on Mars is fringed by extensive zones of ... From their analysis, it emerges that a 10- to 15-km-thick slab of material from the upper crust is bounded by distinct ...

They also found signs that the lava may have mixed with iron-rich material from Mars' crust, changing the rocks' composition even more. "The processes we see here -- fractional crystallization and ...

A MYSTERIOUS hole on Mars could be harbouring alien life in an extensive network of underground tunnels, according to Nasa. From orbit, scientists have captured a deep pit on the Red Planet that ...

On Mars, which has a thin atmosphere (less than 1% of Earth's) and no ozone layer, about 30% more damaging UV radiation reaches the surface. However, numerical modeling predicts ice and snow ...

Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to feed hundreds of lakes. A new study from geologists at the University of ...