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Mars

Visitors to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry can check out the Invisible Mars Science on a Sphere exhibit.
Posted inScience Updates

Magnetic Mars Engages Lay Audiences in Science

by C. Shupla, K. Hauck, T. Mason and B. Jakosky 30 November 201828 September 2021

A NASA team has developed resources to intrigue the public with the discoveries from its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission. Here are four tips for communicating that science.

This lagoon appeared in 2017 in Chile’s Atacama Desert and evaporated months later.
Posted inNews

Atacama Desert’s Unprecedented Rains Are Lethal to Microbes

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 12 November 201812 April 2022

Rainfall in the driest parts of Chile’s Atacama Desert in 2017 resulted in hypersaline lagoons that killed the majority of microbes adapted to millions of years of arid conditions.

Pools of briny water likely exist on Mars. Some might even exist in Gale Crater, Curiosity’s landing site, seen here.
Posted inNews

Brine Pools Emerge as a New Place to Search for Life on Mars

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 29 October 201829 September 2021

Some pools of salty water on the Red Planet could contain enough dissolved oxygen for microorganisms and sponges to survive, new calculations suggest.

Curiosity rover explores the Bagnold Dunes in Gale Crater, Mars
Posted inEditors' Vox

Seeing Mars in a Grain of Sand

by M. G. A. Lapotre 17 October 20183 January 2023

The second phase of Curiosity’s campaign at the Bagnold Dunes brought new observations of windblown sands during Mars’s windy season.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Extreme Space Conditions at Mars: The 10 Largest Electron Events

by Michael W. Liemohn 1 October 201826 October 2021

A solar cycle of data was scoured for the biggest electron energy fluxes seen in the Mars space environment.

Image of part of the Cerberus Fossae fault, taken by the HiRISE instrument aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Searching for Signs of Marsquakes

Kate Wheeling, freelance science writer by Kate Wheeling 28 August 201828 July 2022

Researchers use high-resolution images of Mars’s surface to look for signals of coseismic displacement.

Researchers find evidence of regional deposition in Mars’s south polar deposits
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Evidence of Regional Deposition in Mars’s South Polar Deposits

by Terri Cook 13 August 20188 August 2022

Shallow Radar correlation of discrete units in one of the Red Planet’s largest ice reservoirs suggests that its material was emplaced as a single, regional deposit.

Researchers analyze rocks from Mars’s Gale crater to see whether the conditions under which they formed were really as Earthlike as previously believed.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

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.
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Solar Flare Caused Increased Oxygen Loss from Mars’s Atmosphere

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org 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.

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