An unprecedented audio recording could reveal important details about extreme weather on Mars. The first-ever audio recording of a dust devil on Mars’ surface reveals a towering dust storm that engulfed the Mars Perseverance rover in September 2021 and was … Read More
Author: Andrew Coates Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonising Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an infrastructure … Read More
This new discovery comes from Mars itself, as NASA recently captured what appears to be yet another encounter with the strange Martian cloud. As the title suggests, this massive cloud emerged from Mars, directly above the Aria Mons volcano. Many … Read More
The speed of sound on Mars has been confirmed by scientists using equipment on the Perseverance rover to study the red planet’s atmosphere, which is very different from Earth’s. What they discovered could have strange consequences for future Martian communication. … Read More
Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the Solar System, deeply marks the surface of Mars; a tectonic crack widened by erosion and marked by nearby channels potentially carved by water. It turns out that some of that water might still … Read More
Earth and Mars are a bit like mirror worlds. Mars is the Red Planet. Earth is the pale blue dot. Mars is a frigid desert. Earth is full of water and life. But there’s another curious difference. The sky on … Read More