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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

A view from the “Kimberley” formation on Mars taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover.

Ice-squeezed aquifers might create marsquakes

Geology Page - June 28, 2019

New research focuses on filamentous microbes that make their living in hot springs and catalyze the formation of travertine rock.

‘Fettuccine’ may be most obvious sign of life on Mars, researchers...

Geology Page - May 31, 2019

The retreat of Mars' polar cap of frozen carbon dioxide during the spring and summer generates winds that drive the largest movements of sand dunes observed on the red planet.

On Mars, sands shift to a different drum

Geology Page - May 24, 2019

InSight's seismometer was taken on the 110th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

NASA’s InSight detects first likely ‘quake’ on Mars

Geology Page - April 24, 2019

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Scientists find likely source of methane on Mars

Geology Page - April 3, 2019

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Naturally occurring ‘batteries’ fueled organic carbon synthesis on Mars

Geology Page - November 1, 2018

The central portion of Osuga Valles, which has a total length of 164 km.

Mars valleys traced back to precipitation

Geology Page - July 3, 2018

The oldest known zircon from Mars.

Meteorite ‘Black Beauty’ expands window for when life might have existed...

Geology Page - June 30, 2018

This is a temple in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh, India,

Learning about the Himalayas using Mars technology

Geology Page - June 21, 2018

Herðubreið Volcano in Iceland

Minerology on Mars points to a cold and icy ancient climate

Geology Page - June 9, 2018

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone ‘extremely relevant’ to origin of life

Geology Page - May 20, 2018

Yellowstone National Park

A Yellowstone guide to life on Mars

Geology Page - April 28, 2018

Hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert.

Life in world’s driest desert seen as sign of potential life...

Geology Page - February 26, 2018

Diverse mineralogy exhumed from the Martian subsurface: A false color image from the HiRISE instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows amazing diversity of rocks exhumed from the Martian subsurface a meteor impact in the Nili Fossae area.

Did surface life evolve on Mars? scientist makes key discoveries in...

Geology Page - February 6, 2018

Bacteria survive in the harsh conditions of the Andean lakes of Argentina among high concentrations of arsenic.

Arsenic and permafrost microbes help hunt for life on Mars

Geology Page - January 23, 2018

A cross-section of underground ice is exposed at the steep slope that appears bright blue in this enhanced-color view from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Steep slopes on Mars reveal structure of buried ice on Red...

Geology Page - January 11, 2018

This image from NASA's Mars Curiosity rover shows the Amargosa Valley, on the slopes leading up to Mount Sharp on Mars

Ice shapes the landslide landscape on Mars

Geology Page - November 22, 2017

This HiRISE image cutout shows Recurring Slope Lineae in Tivat crater on Mars in enhanced color

Water On Mars? : Previous evidence of water on Mars now...

Geology Page - November 22, 2017

Microbes Leave “Fingerprints” on Martian Rocks

Geology Page - October 19, 2017

Study shows how water could have flowed on ‘cold and icy’...

Geology Page - October 18, 2017

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