Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. Data from a retired NASA mission has revealed evidence of underground water reserves deep beneath the Martian surface, according to a new study. A team of scientists estimates that there could be enough water trapped… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. Hundreds of basketball-sized space rocks are hitting Mars every year, leaving behind impact craters and rumbling sounds on the red planet, according to new research. Mission planners could use that information, recorded in data collected… Read More »
Meteorites are hitting Mars 10 times more frequently than previously estimated, according to two new research papers that describe the seismic shock waves from these impacts detected by NASA’s now-defunct Mars InSight lander. The new rate is surprising. According to the findings, between 180 and 260 collisions occur annually on the Red Planet, and these… Read More »
The solar storms that produced the stunning auroras seen around the world on May 10 also gave Mars whiplash, sparking auroras over the Red Planet and doused the surface with harmful radiation. The main source of solar storms was an active region. AR3664It was a dense knot of magnetic flux on the sun, inhabited by… Read More »
New computer simulations have cast doubt on the possibility of a lake of liquid water buried beneath Mars’ southern ice sheet; This simulation suggests that closely packed layers of ice can produce the same radar reflections as liquid water. In 2018, the European Space Agency Mars Express The orbiter used the MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar… Read More »
Water frosts were seen for the first time at the equator of Mars. It was previously believed that frost was impossible in this region of the Red Planet, which is equivalent to the tropics. The discovery could be crucial for modeling where water is found on Mars and how water is exchanged between the Red… Read More »
A mysterious hole in the slope of an ancient rock volcano Open Anthem It’s caused a stir lately because of what it might reveal beneath the Red Planet’s surface. Here’s what it means. First of all, the pit, only a few meters in diameter, was actually imaged by NASA on August 15, 2022. Mars Reconnaissance… Read More »
We now have a better picture of where the European Space Agency is. Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover He will drive when he lands. Anthem for the life-searching mission, thanks to a brand new geological map of the landing site. “This map is exciting because it’s a guide that shows us where to find the answers,”… Read More »
More than two million years ago, a giant asteroid hit Mars, creating a large crater and approximately two billion smaller craters on the surface. These secondary craters appear across 1,000 miles (1,800 kilometers), making this asteroid event one of the largest impacts seen on the Red Planet in relatively recent history. It is estimated that… Read More »
The Red Planet continues to surprise us. New research has revealed a giant volcano and possible buried glacial ice sheet. The location for this groundbreaking announcement is in the eastern part of the Tharsis volcanic field on Mars, near the planet’s equator. Due to its eroded, difficult-to-detect nature, the feature had been overlooked since Mariner… Read More »