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Researchers analyze rocks from Mars’s Gale crater to see whether the conditions under which they formed were really as Earthlike as previously believed.
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Is Mars Not So Earthlike After All?

by E. Underwood 16 July 20183 January 2023

Light-colored Gale crater rocks could have formed from intraplate volcanoes, not continental crust, new study finds.

Researchers analyze traces of volcanic activity and water flooding in Hrad Vallis on Mars
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Tracing the Steps of Hydrothermal Activity in Hrad Vallis, Mars

by S. Witman 10 July 201810 October 2021

Conditions that formed Amazonian age valleys may have been hospitable to microbial life.

The 10 September 2017 X class solar flare in ultraviolet light.
Posted inNews

Solar Flare Caused Increased Oxygen Loss from Mars’s Atmosphere

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 4 June 201820 December 2022

Measurements by a Mars-orbiting spacecraft indicated heating and chemistry changes in the planet’s atmosphere following an extreme solar eruption last year.

Laguna Caliente in Costa Rica
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Scientists Discover an Environment on the Cusp of Habitability

by Katherine Kornei 25 May 201824 February 2022

A volcanically heated Costa Rican lake hosts only one type of organism, suggesting that its Mars-like environment is just barely capable of supporting life.

Mars InSight sitting on the Martian surface with the inner solar system planets in the background
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New Lander en Route to Probe the Red Planet’s Interior

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 7 May 201822 June 2022

The Mars InSight mission aims to answer key planetary science questions about seismicity, meteorite impacts, and the formation of rocky planets.

Gale Crater on Mars
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History of Mars’s Water, Seen Through the Lens of Gale Crater

by R. Skibba 5 April 20183 January 2023

Research uncovers more of Mars’s past, when flowing water may have been transient before eventually disappearing.

Spatter bombs
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Homemade “Spatter Bombs” Can Reveal Volcanic Secrets

by JoAnna Wendel 23 March 201815 November 2022

Researchers use trial and error to develop a technique to create volcanic lava bombs.

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Long Term Preservation of Subsurface Ice on Mars

by S. A. Hauck II 14 February 201828 January 2022

Layered-ejecta craters on Mars that are associated with impacts into rock mixed with volatiles have been formed throughout the planet’s history indicating the long-term preservation of subsurface ice.

Researchers examine mudstone in Mars’s Gale crater to unravel the history of liquid surface water
Posted inResearch Spotlights

History of Water on Mars’s Surface Is Longer Than We Thought

by Terri Cook 2 February 20183 January 2023

Curiosity’s two-step heating experiment of mudstone at Gale crater reveals minerals that formed in the presence of water less than 3 billion years ago.

An artist’s conception of a portable Martian greenhouse currently being developed at NASA.
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Tests Indicate Which Edible Plants Could Thrive on Mars

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 12 January 201826 January 2022

An undergraduate experiment grew vegetables and herbs in simulated Martian soil under Mars-like reduced daylight. The tasty results suggest that Mars colonists could farm their own produce.

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