NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has made a historic leap in its mission to understand the Red Planet. With its HiRISE camera now having captured its 100,000th image, this milestone provides ...

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris flows preserved from a time when the planet’s climate dramatically shifted.

Mars is often associated with its iconic red hue, a color that evokes visions of a harsh and uninhabitable desert landscape. However, a new high-resolution satellite image from theEuropean Space ...

In a mission update late last month, Perseverance team members described the rover's most detailed look yet at a class of features called aeolian megaripples, oversized ripples of sand that can rise ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On Earth, wind can continually rearrange sand into migrating dunes and ripples. The picture on ...