Emiratos Árabes Unidos lanzará una sonda para aterrizar en un asteroide
El 5 de octubre, la Agencia Espacial de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos (UAE por sus siglas en ingles) anunció un plan para enviar una sonda a aterrizar en un asteroide […]
El 5 de octubre, la Agencia Espacial de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos (UAE por sus siglas en ingles) anunció un plan para enviar una sonda a aterrizar en un asteroide […]
Volcanism is a fundamental geologic process on the terrestrial planets, including Mars. It has been suggested that several large, circular depressions in the northern region of Mars called Arabia Terra […]
On September 1, NASA’s Perseverance rover made its second attempt to obtain a rock sample from the martian surface. Images taken by Perseverance’s navigation camera at the sample collection site in […]
Volcanism is a prevalent geologic process on Mars, producing numerous landforms such as lava flow plains and shield volcanoes. The Tharsis volcanic region consists of three large shield volcanoes, including […]
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, made its first attempt to collect rock samples on August 6, 2021. However, data sent by the rover indicate that no rock was collected during […]
The InSight lander on Mars has detected hundreds of marsquakes, including a few large quakes with strong detections of both P (pressure) and S (shear) waves. Shear waves vibrate perpendicular to their […]
The surface of Mars shows abundant geologic evidence that lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water existed on its surface, at least intermittently, for significant portions of its history. However, […]
One of the most exciting components of the Mars 2020 mission is the Mars helicopter scout named “Ingenuity.” Ingenuity is a technology demonstration intended to test whether an aircraft can […]
Although present-day Mars is arid and dry, there is geologic evidence that ancient Mars had a significant volume of liquid water, equivalent to a global ocean 100–1500 meters deep. This evidence […]
There is abundant evidence that ancient Mars possessed water on its surface. Noachian-age rocks (3.7 to 4.1 billion years old) show evidence for hydrous minerals, valley networks, lakes, and shorelines […]
Since 2004, ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has observed the surface and atmosphere of Mars using a variety of visual, radar, and radio-science instruments. In 2018, it imaged a spectacular, elongated, […]
It has been suggested that the two natural orbiting satellites of Mars — the larger inner moon, Phobos, and the smaller outer moon, Deimos — are captured asteroids. While images […]
In-situ resource utilization (ISRU), which focuses on the extraction and purification of natural resources to sustain exploration, is of great importance for future landed missions and potential habitation of extraterrestrial […]
Billions of years ago, rivers flowed across the surface of Mars, shaping fluvial landforms visible to this day. These landforms, preserved by Mars’ relative lack of tectonic activity, contain a […]
The present-day surface of Mars contains numerous glacier-like landforms hypothesized to have formed as a result of water being redistributed from the poles to glaciers at the mid-latitudes during times […]
In 2017, the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover reached a locality in Gale crater informally named Vera Rubin ridge. The 6.5-kilometer-long and approximately 250-meter-wide Vera Rubin ridge was […]
Conditions on Mars today do not support the stability of liquid water on its surface. However, it is possible that water could be trapped deep within the subsurface. In 2018, […]
Periodic detections of methane in Mars’ atmosphere have provoked considerable curiosity as to its source and variability over time. On Earth, methane can be produced by microbial life, but it […]
For the last 40 years, since the valleys of Mars were first discovered, the assumption has been that precipitation and surface water runoff fueled rivers that once flowed on Mars, […]
Dear Colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to the following session at this year’s AGU Fall Meeting (7 – 11 December, 2020): P042 – The New Mars Underground (and […]