The Red Planet completed its latest orbit around the Sun on November 12, 2024, marking the start of a new Martian year ... Spring on Mars also heralds the eruption of gas geysers, a phenomenon ...

Unlike Earth's desert dunes, which shift with wind, these Martian dunes remain stationary ... Created by an eruption approximately 4,000 years ago, it remains vital for scientific research and ...

While the shapes of the other terrestrial planets are more or less symmetrical, varying only slightly between their equatorial diameters and their polar ... Martian landscape. Four massive shield ...

On this date, Jan. 3, 1999, NASA launched the Mars Polar Lander as part of then -NASA administrator Dan Goldin’s “Better, Faster, Cheaper” initiative. But as the saying goes, you can only ...

While Monument Valley’s buttes and mesas can reach up to 1,000 feet (300 meters) above the valley floor and cover an area of 145 square miles, the Martian mounds reach 1,800 feet (550 meters ...

The 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak Volcano ... have we developed the ability to extract microscopic ash shards from polar ice cores and conduct detailed chemical analyses on them.

The system, known as a polar vortex, is forecast to bring subzero temperatures to the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and deep into the South. And it looks as if we may get more arctic blasts in the coming ...

The findings of the study were published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The mounds lie north of a feature of Mars known as the Martian dichotomy, where the towering, ancient highlands of the ...