"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy ...

The idea of an ancient Martian ocean has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, groundbreaking research based on radar scans ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is tirelessly exploring Mars and recently overcame a rocky challenge to collect another valuable ...

China's Zhurong Mars rover, which has been exploring the ... even compared to other water-rich locations. "Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life," Manga told ScienceAlert.

Perseverance is pushing the limits of Martian science by using its SHERLOC instrument to detect organic compounds, but harsh ...

Wiens has worked on and with Mars rovers for decades and literally gave Perseverance its head. The blocky projection on top of the rover, which superficially ... study at Purdue across multiple ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

After reaching Mars in 2021 the Zhurong rover landed in the Utopia Planitia ... as well as looking at the shoreline from more distant locations. Graziella Caprarelli, a planetary scientist at ...

This isn’t any conspiracy theory or pseudoscience: Using samples collected from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover ... determined was the prime location for sample collection.

Mars expert Roger Wiens and his team, including the rover Perseverance, discovered fascinating rocks incorporating kaolinite and spinel on Mars’ surface that form in warm, wet environments — but the ...