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Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers, researchers say

Geology Page - August 6, 2020

Microscopic structures created in the lab. Credit: Sean McMahon

Solving fossil mystery could aid quest for ancient life on Mars

In this handout image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, a color image from NASA’s Curiosity rover’s Mast Camera shows part of the wall of Gale Crater, the location on Mars where the rover landed August 5, 2012 on Mars. Credit: NASA via Getty Images

Mars once had salt lakes similar to those on Earth

Picture taken at one of the sites inspected in the Coastal Range of the Atacama Desert. On this picture Professor Azua-Bustos and González-Silva are donning sterile suites and using sterile collecting materials in order to avoid the contamination of the sites studied. Credit: Margarita Azua

Atacama Desert microbes may hold clues to life on Mars

Polar ice caps on Mars are a combination of water ice and frozen CO2. Like its gaseous form, frozen CO2 allows sunlight to penetrate while trapping heat. In the summer, this solid-state greenhouse effect creates pockets of warming under the ice, seen here as black dots in the ice.

A material way to make Mars habitable

Mars study yields clues to possible cradle of life

Geology Page - October 7, 2017

New light shed on how Earth and Mars were created

Geology Page - September 28, 2017

Hot rocks, not warm atmosphere, led to relatively recent water-carved valleys...

Geology Page - June 14, 2017

Rover findings indicate stratified lake on ancient Mars

Geology Page - June 3, 2017

Rivers on three worlds tell different tales

Geology Page - May 19, 2017

Mars volcano, Earth’s dinosaurs went extinct about the same time

Geology Page - March 21, 2017

Paleolake deposits on Mars might look like sediments in Indonesia

Geology Page - March 7, 2017

New evidence for a water-rich history on Mars

Geology Page - March 6, 2017

More Earth-like than moon-like

Geology Page - February 25, 2017

Evidence of 2 billion years of volcanic activity on Mars

Geology Page - February 3, 2017

New evidence for a warmer and wetter early Mars

Geology Page - December 14, 2016

Meteorites reveal lasting drought on Mars

Geology Page - November 11, 2016

A funnel on Mars could be a place to look for...

Geology Page - November 11, 2016

Modeling floods that formed canyons on Earth and Mars

Geology Page - October 14, 2016

Unusual martian region leaves clues to planet’s past

Geology Page - September 28, 2016

Earthquakes, ‘Mars-quakes,’ and the possibility of life

Geology Page - September 21, 2016

Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations

Geology Page - September 10, 2016

Veins on Mars were formed by evaporating ancient lakes

Geology Page - August 5, 2016

Cataclysm at Meteor Crater: Crystal sheds light on Earth, moon, Mars

Geology Page - July 27, 2016

Digging deeper into Mars

Geology Page - July 27, 2016

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A rough diamond from Kankan, Guinea, that was analyzed in a new study led by a PhD student at the U of A. The imperfections inside the diamond are small inclusions of a mineral called ferropericlase, which is from the lower mantle. Credit: Anetta Banas

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Earthquake physics on multiple scales

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Picture of the Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala. Credit: Zorn et al. 2020, Nature

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NHMUK PV R 9372, Palaeosauropus sp., (a) colour photograph of the original sandstone slab and tracks, (b) 3D digital render of the plaster cast of the sandstone slab and tracks and (c) black and white photograph of the original sandstone slab and tracks. In (b), left manus and pes prints are denoted a and b respectively, the right pes prints c and e, with print d being the right manus. The indented area left of print e is identified as damage to the specimen rather than a footprint impression.

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