The Curiosity Rover Examines Clay and Clouds on Mars
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory rover, better known as Curiosity, has recently found a location in Gale crater with the most abundant clay observed so far on the mission. Two recent […]
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory rover, better known as Curiosity, has recently found a location in Gale crater with the most abundant clay observed so far on the mission. Two recent […]
Global or planet-encircling dust storms are one of the most fascinating features of the Martian atmosphere and climate. With two rovers on the surface and six spacecraft in orbit, in conjunction […]
On November 27 at approximately 1:53 pm CST, NASA’s latest mission to the Red Planet touched down softly, making it the eighth mission to successfully reach the surface of Mars. This […]
There is a call for papers for a special issue of Icarus on Current and Recent Landscape Evolution on Mars. The temporal and geographical distribution of liquid water on early Mars […]
A special issue of Planetary and Space Science seeks to assemble papers describing our current understanding of the climate and planetary processes occurring on Mars during the Amazonian period, the […]
The Mars Research Assistant will work in the Planetary Science research group led by Edwin Kite in the University of Chicago’s Department of Geophysical Sciences. The central objective of the […]
Global or planet-encircling dust storms are one of the most fascinating features of the Martian atmosphere and climate. With two rovers on the surface and six spacecraft in orbit, in conjunction […]
A new article, published in the journal Science this past Wednesday, reports the results of a radar study years in the making of the Mars south polar cap — the […]
We solicit contributions to a session at this year’s GSA Annual Meeting to take place November 4-7 in Indianapolis, Indiana. This session synthesizes recent research on the origin, deposition, and […]
NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully drilled a hole 2 inches (5.1 centimeters) deep in a target called “Duluth” on May 20, 2018. The hole is about 0.6 inches (1.6 centimeters) across. […]
In a new study published in the journal Nature Microbiology, a team of researchers from Montana State have discovered a new phylum of Archaea from the geothermal springs of Yellowstone […]
The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) mission arrives on Mars in November 2018. In anticipation of its arrival, a group of researchers led by Dr. Ana-Catalina […]
In a new paper out in Geology, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team members have confirmed the polygonal features noted on the Old Soak slab of the Murray formation exposed in […]
Two CubeSats, briefcase-sized mini satellites, were launched into space alongside the Mars InSight mission on May 5 of this year. Nicknamed “Wall-E” and “Eva” by their team, the two Mars […]
The 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft and the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) have been acquiring infrared images of Mars for more than 16 years. The best-quality images from the mission […]
Monday, March 19, 2018 12:00 noon Grogan’s Mill Meeting Room The Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing (JMARS) team will host a series of short presentations by scientists who […]
We would like you to consider submitting an abstract and attending the following technical session: 11d “From Source to Sink – Geochemical Sulfur Cycles on Earth and Mars” during the […]
The date February 16, 2018 marked 5000 Martian sols since the Opportunity rover landed on Meridiani Planum on January 25, 2004. The solar-powered Opportunity rover initially had a 90-day prime […]
New abstract deadline: February 5, 2018, 5 pm CST The 2nd International Mars Sample Return Conference is scheduled to take place over 2.5 days from April 25-27, 2018, in Berlin, […]
Multiple observations suggest that extensive ice sheets have been common and widespread in the subsurface of the northern mid-latitudes of Mars, but how much ice is buried beneath the surface […]