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Kidney Bean-Shaped Sand Dunes Spotted On Mars Could Hold Clues To Life

January 15, 2025 admin

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has clicked a stunning picture of the Red Planet’s surface showing frozen sand dunes in the northern hemisphere, resembling a kidney bean. The photo, taken by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera in September 2022 and only released to the public last month, could help find if conditions on…

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4-billion-year-old crystal offers oldest evidence of water on Mars

December 5, 2024 admin

Water is ubiquitous on Earth – about 70% of Earth’s surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface and inside rocks. Geologic evidence suggests water has been stable on Earth since about 4.3 billion years ago. The history of water on early Mars is less certain. Determining when water first appeared,…

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Elon Musk, Neil deGrasse Tyson Clash Again Over Mars Colonisation: “It Doesn’t Happen”

November 24, 2024 admin

Elon Musk and Neil de Grasse Tyson have clashed once again with the latter claiming that the billionaire will not be able to fund his quest to set up civilisation on Mars. Speaking to American talk show host, Bill Maher, Mr Tyson commented on the feasibility of travelling to Mars, adding that the investors would…

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Discovery Of Ancient Hot Water On Mars Indicator Of Its Habitable Past

November 23, 2024 admin

Sydney: Australian researchers have discovered the oldest direct evidence of hot water activity on Mars, revealing that the planet may have once been habitable. In a study published on Saturday, a team led by researchers from Curtin University in Western Australia analyzed a 4.45 billion-year-old zircon grain from the famous Martian meteorite NWA7034, also known…

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Chinese Rover Discovers Evidence Of 3.42 Billion Years Old Ocean On Mars

November 7, 2024 admin

Washington: With the assistance of China’s Zhurong rover, scientists have gathered fresh evidence that Mars was home to an ocean billions of years ago – a far cry from the dry and desolate world it is today. Scientists said on Thursday that data obtained by Zhurong, which landed in the northern lowlands of Mars in…

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NASA Study Suggests Life May Exist On Mars Below Ice Surface

October 19, 2024 admin

Is there life on Mars? Scientists have been seeking an answer to this question for a long time. Although no concrete evidence has been found till date, a latest study by NASA has sparked curiosity. The US space agency suggests that microbes might find a potential home beneath the frozen water on the red planet’s…

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Alien Landscape? Mars Reveals A Formation That Looks Like A Human Face

October 18, 2024 admin

This image was acquired on September 27, 2024. Mars is one of Earth’s nearest space neighbours, and the idea of finding extraterrestrial life there, only a short rocket journey away, has long attracted human curiosity. Such life has not been discovered. However, since NASA and other space agencies have started employing robotic technology to examine…

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What would it take to turn Mars into a life-friendly planet like the earth?

August 14, 2024 admin

When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.” The plot drew me in, with its depiction of the “Genesis Project” – a new technology that transformed a dead alien world into one brimming with life. After watching the movie, my teacher…

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Huge underground reservoir of liquid water on Mars, seismic data indicates

August 12, 2024 admin

This image provided by NASA shows the InSight Mars lander in a selfie photo composite on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. | Photo Credit: AP An immense reservoir of liquid water may reside deep under the surface of Mars within fractured igneous rocks, holding enough to fill an…

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Is there new evidence that Mars once had lakes, rivers?

February 3, 2024 admin

Ground-penetrating radar on board NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has confirmed that the Jezero Crater, formed by an ancient meteor impact just north of the Martian equator, once harboured a vast lake and river delta. Over eons, sediment deposition and erosion within the crater shaped the geologic formations visible on the surface today. The discovery of…

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