Tag: Mars
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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Mars: large quantities of water discovered under the largest canyon in the solar system
There should be no water on the surface of Mars at the equator, and very little there just below that surface. And yet the instruments of the Exomars mission say…
Strange interactions with solar winds detected on a Mars moon
The Mars Express probe, orbiting the Red Planet since 2003, observed the reflection of charged particles contained in solar winds during two flyovers of the moon Phobos. The European Space…