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Mars attracts: How Earth’s interactions with the red planet drive deep-sea...

Photo caption: Waves received in the wind tunnel of Ben Gurion University of the Negev with glass balls with a diameter of 90 microns. Two scales of waves can be seen in the image.

New theory explains sand ripples on Mars and on Earth

Satellite image of gully landscapes on Mars, taken by HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Experiment), a camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (photo no.: ESP_039114_1115). The white CO2 ice is visible on the sides of the gullies.

Surprising insights about debris flows on Mars

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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Scientists find likely source of methane on Mars

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Naturally occurring ‘batteries’ fueled organic carbon synthesis on Mars

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

Mars valleys traced back to precipitation

The oldest known zircon from Mars.

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

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

Learning about the Himalayas using Mars technology

Herðubreið Volcano in Iceland

Minerology on Mars points to a cold and icy ancient climate

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone ‘extremely relevant’ to origin of life

Yellowstone National Park

A Yellowstone guide to life on Mars

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