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Schematic of the mechanical design of the Heatflow and Physical Properties Package radiometer
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Insights from Calibration of the HP³ Radiometer on InSight

by Kristy Tiampo 27 July 202022 June 2022

A detailed analysis of Heatflow and Physical Properties Package Radiometer on the Mars InSight lander, including changing instrument sensitivity and calibration coefficients.

Black-and-white image of the Martian landscape feature Medusae Fossae
Posted inNews

Scientists Float a New Theory on the Medusae Fossae Formation

by Nola Taylor Tillman 19 May 202025 August 2022

Pumice-like rafts of lightweight material could have carried volcanic debris across an ancient Martian ocean to build one of the most puzzling features on the Red Planet.

Photos of a sensor on board the Curiosity rover before and after a dust storm
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Curiosity Monitors Rare Global Dust Storm From Mars’s Surface

by Anni Määttänen 12 August 20193 January 2023

Since the 1970s, no surface platform had made meteorological measurements of a global dust storm on Mars, but last summer NASA’s Curiosity rover witnessed one of these rare events.

Illustration of an erupting volcano on Venus
Posted inFeatures

Resurrecting Interest in a “Dead” Planet

by Damond Benningfield 11 July 201917 January 2023

New research suggests that the surface of Venus is busy, but it may take new missions to our “sibling” planet to confirm this.

Satellite image of the surface of Mars, with a 5-kilometer scale
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Detecting Carbonates on the Surface of Mars

by E. Underwood 16 May 201928 July 2022

A new study shows how a warm, wet climate weathered rocks on early Mars.

An artist’s rendering of what Mars may have looked like 4 billion years ago with an ocean covering about half of its surface
Posted inResearch Spotlights

A New Way to Analyze Evidence of Martian Oceans

by Elizabeth Thompson 9 April 201928 July 2022

Mars’s aqueous past holds the answers to many questions about the Red Planet. A new study provides a tool for scouring planetary surfaces for ancient shorelines.

Perspective view of Mars’s south polar ice cap
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Local Heat Source Needed to Form Liquid Water Lake on Mars

by Terri Cook 12 March 201910 March 2022

Thermal modeling suggests that active magmatism in the past few hundred thousand years could account for the presence of a large lake previously hypothesized beneath the Red Planet’s southern ice cap.

A picture of Phobos, the larger of Mars’s two moons
Posted inResearch Spotlights

New Hints About How Martian Moons Formed

by E. Underwood 11 February 201928 July 2022

A new study finds that Phobos includes chunks of Martian crust.

Slope streaks on Mars
Posted inEditors' Vox

Revisiting Enigmatic Martian Slope Streaks

by A. Bhardwaj, L. Sam, F. J. Martín‐Torres and M-P. Zorzano 15 January 201928 July 2022

Slope streaks of different sizes and shapes are a common feature on the surface of Mars, but scientists disagree about the mechanisms for their formation and development.

Jezero crater delta and its minerology
Posted inNews

Martian Crater Will Be the Landing Site for a Future Rover

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 30 November 201817 January 2023

The impact crater is a dry lake bed that contains evidence of ancient water flows and perhaps signs of ancient microbial life.

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