Mars exploration has been guided by the search ... All of the four potential landing sites host phyllosilicate minerals, and Gale crater may also preserve a transition from phyllosilicates to ...

A hole in the surface of Mars, spotted by the HiRISE camera, reveals a cave below. Protected from the harsh surface of Mars, such pits are believed to be good candidates to contain Martian life ...

Marking a new journey in NASA's exploration of Mars, the Perseverance rover is set to begin a monthslong, steep and challenging ascent up a crater, the space agency announced Wednesday.

Anthropologists Call for Tracking and Preservation of Human Artifacts on Mars Dec. 16, 2024 — Anthropologists argue physical artifacts of human exploration ... exploring Gale crater on Mars ...

This is the rim of a crater. Its floor—some 800 meters ... The overarching theme of NASA's current Mars exploration is "follow the water," because where there is water, there might possibly ...

and they could provide clues to the history of liquid water and possible ancient life on Mars. Bacquerel Crater The next stop is another place that may have been teeming with life long ago ...

Perseverance landed on Mars in 2021 near Jezero Crater with several objectives ... and to test new exploration technologies. One of those technologies was the plucky Ingenuity helicopter, a ...

Why go back to Mars? Far from dead, Mars holds untold potential. Nearly half a century of Mars exploration has yielded ... touched down inside the Gale Crater—means we have wheels down on ...

Mission scientists had named it Burns Cliff to honor the late mineralogist Roger Burns, who proposed that water on Mars might have left deposits like those lining the crater rim. A slice of ...