Tag: Mars
Extraterrestrial life: how life as we know it could also exist on Mars
Some environments on Earth are unmistakably similar to those that may have existed on Mars in the past. And in these environments, researchers find living organisms endowed with formidable adaptive…
Mars reveals secrets of its past in these impressive images
Once again, the Mars Express probe reveals magnificent images of the Martian landscape, the reading of which makes it possible to reconstruct a volcanic environment where water flowed freely. You…
Asteroids have been falling steadily on Earth and Mars for 600 million years
Counting the craters on the surface of a planet can provide precise information about its history. This is what researchers have done on Mars. They conclude that the frequency of…
Asteroids have been falling steadily on Earth and Mars for 600 million years
Counting the craters on the surface of a planet can provide precise information about its history. This is what researchers have done on Mars. They conclude that the frequency of…
How Tonga’s volcanic eruption is helping to better understand Mars
The violent eruption of Hunga Tonga-hunga Ha’apai on January 15 marked the spirits. However, scientists are familiar with this young volcano whose formation they have been following for several years…
A carbon signature detected on Mars could be of biological origin
Carbon is at the heart of life. But not only… So when astronomers get their hands on a rather special form of carbon on Mars, they consider that it could…
Mars: does this carbon signal detected by Curiosity betray the presence of life?
Carbon is at the heart of life. But not only… So when astronomers get their hands on a rather special form of carbon than the planet Mars, they consider that…
Formation of the Solar System: news on the origin of Mars and the Earth
Some cosmochemists suspected that the Earth and Mars would have formed by accreting significant amounts of matter from the regions where the giant planets were born. Showing that this was…
The rocks of the interior of Mars reproduced in the laboratory on Earth
On Mars, since 2019, the Insight mission has been collecting data concerning seismic waves passing through the mantle of the Red Planet. By reproducing in the laboratory the temperature and…
The Moon in reconciliation with Mars and Antares
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