In late December 2024 and early January 2025, a photo circulated on multiple social media sites claiming to show an ice-capped crater on Mars (archived) that scientists recently discovered. One ...

Multiple reputable news outlets published the photo shortly after its release in 2018, such as NPR, The Guardian and BBC.. As the ESA explained in a 2018 article, the Korolev crater (named after ...

This means that what’s on top of the ejecta blanket is the deepest material, revealing specific layers that were unobservable before the impact. For the study, the researchers used a combination of ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is in the middle of a months-long journey up the rim of Jezero Crater on Mars, and on Thursday it beamed back a status update.

Mars’ Jezero Crater is the future landing site for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. ... NASA would love to sample the rocks at the center of the delta, where the water would’ve been the deepest.

The cover shows part of the Larry's Lookout panorama, seen from the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit during its drive up Husband Hill: the summit is about 200 metres from the rover. Six papers ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by NASA's Perseverance rover.

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered evidence that the Jezero crater on Mars it touched down in was once a lake bed fed by a river with floods, scientists say.

Diverse and highly differentiated lava suite in Jezero crater, Mars: Constraints on intracrustal magmatism revealed by Mars 2020 PIXL. Science Advances, 2025; 11 (4) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr2613; ...