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NASA Rover Finds Fresh Evidence of Warm and Wet Past of Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover finds major clue that Mars was once habitable

NASA's Curiosity rover has found iron-rich carbonates on Mars, offering new clues about the planet's ancient climate and potential habitability.

University of Chicago News · 4d

NASA’s Curiosity rover finds evidence for long-ago CO2 atmosphere on Mars

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then drops the powdered rock samples into an instrument in its belly called CheMin. The instrument, developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, uses X-ray diffraction to analyze rocks and soil.

Reuters · 5d

NASA rover finds fresh evidence of the warm and wet past of Mars

WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ...

Phys.org18d

Here's how we could quickly raise temperatures on Mars

Combined with time-varying simulations of natural dust, their results showed that these plumes would spread globally within a year and thicken Mars' upper atmosphere. At a release of 2 liters per ...

Popular Mechanics10d

A Scientist Has an Explosive Plan to Terraform Mars. It's So Wild That It Might Just Work.

If humans have any hope of establishing a long-term colony on Mars, we’ll likely need to alter the planet’s atmosphere to make it more hospitable. One part of this plan would require ...

The Sun13d

Smashing asteroids into Mars could make planet safe for humans as scientist warns colonists’ skin could BOIL if we don’t

He believes the Oort Cloud is home to billions of icy asteroids, which, if smashed into Mars, could give the planet an atmosphere. Mars has a much thinner atmosphere than Earth, made up mostly ...

Wired6d

The Wild Plan to Terraform Mars by Slamming Asteroids Into It

It’s often the case that the more that planets are studied and understood, the more remote the possibility of inhabiting them seems. Mars, for example, is the closest celestial body to Earth in ...

Science Daily7d

On Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down

The confirmation, reported March 28 in the journal Science Advances, emerged together with the first 3D visualization of Jupiter's upper atmosphere, which Moeckel and de Pater recently created and ...

Astronomy27d

Ghost rivers, hidden lakes: The long search for water on Mars

which has been orbiting Mars since 2014. What has been its main achievement? MAVEN is the only spacecraft that was devoted to understanding the upper atmosphere and the stripping of gases to ...

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