Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open. As engineers refine maps of potential Mars landing sites, one location ...

A new study has raised some speculation about whether or not parts of Mars can allow life to grow. The study, published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, highlights the potential of ...

Mars, now a dusty world of rusted rock and thin air, once carried enough water to transform its face into something far more familiar. New mapping of ancient river systems indicates that a vast ...

This image shows one of the first regions of Mars measured after CRISM’s cover was opened. CRISM takes images in two basic formats. The first format is a “targeted image” about 10 kilometers by 10 ...

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These Mars Express images show Claritas Fossae, an ancient tectonic region on Mars, west of Solis Planum, a tectonic and volcanic area south-east of the Tharsis volcano group. The images were taken by ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have some exciting ideas about the future of digital mapping for space exploration. They completed a paper titled ...