NASA’s upcoming landing of the first-ever mission to study the heart of Mars will be the topic of a media briefing at 1:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 31 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The briefing will air live on NASA Television, the agency’s website and the NASA InSight Facebook page. Did you know you can […]
An ancient Martian lake could have harbored a variety of microbial life around 3.5 billion years ago, a new study has suggested. Scientists analyzed rocks from the Gale crater to reach their conclusion. Gale crater is a 96 mile wide depression that was once a vast lake. This site, according to scientists, is just perfect […]
A new study carried out by researchers from the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences (ACSPS) at the University of Arkansas suggests that some terrestrial organisms such as methanogens (the methane-producing microbes) could survive the extremely thin air of Mars. The detailed findings of the study, titled “Low Pressure Tolerance by Methanogens in an […]
NASA has just published more than one thousand high-resolution pictures of the surface of the Red Planet. These images have been captured by the HiRise camera installed in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The HiRise camera has been taking the pictures of the Martian surface since 2005, and NASA has released many of these pictures in […]
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