NASA Needed 15 Years to Take This Photo of Mars, And All It Found Is a Collection of Rocks
16 Oct 2021, 17:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Photo showing a portion of the Valles Marineris canyon on Mars was finally taken in 2021, no less than 15 years since it was requested
Jellyfish-Like Formation on Mars Is Not What Scientists Believed
13 Oct 2021, 15:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A formation in the Arabia Terra region of Mars was believed to have been made by water, scientists now think it's more dust avalanche
Strange Shadows Make Martian Valley Look Like Lungs Under X-Rays
12 Oct 2021, 15:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Image sent back by the HiRISE camera shows the Osuga Valles region of the Red Planet, with a wide and long valley and plenty of hills
Teardrop Island on Mars Was Dangerous Real Estate Back When the Planet Had Water
9 Oct 2021, 09:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Another image sent back from Mars by the HiRISE camera shows a teardrop-shaped formation in an area known as the Lethe Vallis
Orbital Camera Spots Weird Crater Within a Crater Formation on Mars
8 Oct 2021, 13:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The HiRISE camera in orbit around Mars captures the image of a crater inside a crater ion the Deuteronilus Mensae region of the planet
Still-Frozen Martian Sand Dunes Seem to Be Charging Into the Great Unknown
5 Oct 2021, 15:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Photo released recently by NASA and the University of Arizona shows partially frozen sand dunes in the Kaiser Crater region
These Strange Martian Shapes Are the Result of an Invisible Force Still at Play There
26 Sep 2021, 07:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Images of Mars taken by the HiRISE camera up in Martian orbit show that wind is just as poweful of a shaping force there as it is everywhere else
Buried Pear-Like Feature on Mars Is Actually the Sign of a Once-Active Alien World
25 Sep 2021, 07:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Another image sent back from the orbit of Mars by the HiRISE camera shows signs of the planet's very volcanically active past
Martian South Pole Carbon Dioxide Ice Cap Shapeshifts Every Chance It Gets
19 Sep 2021, 07:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Two photos of the same region at the Martian South Pole show the same mesas eight years apart, and the changes are visible
Fresh Mars Impact Crater Looks Like an Imperfect, Empty Bowl of Soup
18 Sep 2021, 07:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The HiRISE camera in orbit around Mars captured an image of a relatively fresh impact crater in a geological sense in the Meridiani Planum region
Mysterious Fractures Look Like Someone Is Writing Hiragana on the Surface of Mars
12 Sep 2021, 08:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Recently-released image of the planet Mars shows a region with interesting fractures that look like some form of an Asian writing
These Apparent Martian Sandworms Use Wind to Organize Themselves
11 Sep 2021, 08:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Photo taken by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows another weird feature of the Red Planet in the Terra Cimmeria region
Rock Formation on Mars Looks Like a Lonely Dome Lost Near a Weirdly-Shaped Crater
4 Sep 2021, 07:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The image you see here shows a dome-shaped outcrop in the Orcus Patera region of Mars as seen from 278 km (173 miles) above the surface
Mars in Unusual Shades of Blue, Green and Yellow Is Like Nothing You’ve Seen Before
16 Aug 2021, 07:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An older image of Mars released this month shows a region of the planet with exposed bedrock seen with other colors than we're used to
Polygonal Dunes Look Like Sea Sponges Seen From High Above Mars
3 Aug 2021, 13:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The HiRISE camera on the Martian-orbiting MRO satellite captures an image showing polygonal dunes on the surface of Mars.
Ghost Crater Shows Skid Mark-Like Features in This Photo From Mars
2 Aug 2021, 15:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera captures a so-called ghost crater in a Martian region called Utopia Planitia, edge looks like skid marks
Recent Mars Impact Crater Looks Like a Cigarette Burn
29 Jul 2021, 09:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new image of Mars released by the people running the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows one of the most recent impact craters on the Red Planet
China Landing Site on Mars Looks Weirdly Blue, Special Glasses Reveal a Surprise
23 Jun 2021, 08:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The University of Arizona releases yet another image of the landing site of the Chinese Tianwen-1 mission to Mars that landed in May