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Martian volcanoes may have transported ice to the planet's equator

The equatorial regions of Mars are home to unexpectedly enormous layers of ice, and they may have been put there by dramatic volcanic eruptions billions of years ago

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Handout still for the film Blue Planet Red. Wrench Tool and Container Discovered by Rolf Varga, the Spirit Rover photographed two funny-looking rocks that resemble a wrench and open-top container laid on its side. https://blueplanetred.net/images

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Blue Planet Red is wrong about Mars – but it's surprisingly poignant

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Mars once had an atmosphere that was thicker than Earth's today

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Clouds over Arsia Mons

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A weird cloud forms on Mars each year and now we know why

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NASA hasn't found life on Mars yet – but signs are promising

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Bioplastic habitats on Mars could be built from algae

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The suspected volcano (circled) is close to the Jezero Crater (left of the image)

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Perseverance rover may hold secrets to newly discovered Mars volcano

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https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/ NASA?s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23. A rock nicknamed ?Cheyava Falls,? which has features that may bear on the question of whether the Red Planet was long ago home to microscopic life, is to the left of the rover near the center of the image. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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Could brain-computer interface let us inhabit robot avatars on Mars?

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A vast dust storm appears over the rim of a crater on Mars

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Dust devils on Mars produce lightning-like zaps of electricity

NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded unusual sounds as a Martian dust devil passed directly over the robotic vehicle in 2021, and we now know they came from electrical activity in the storm

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Most quakes on Mars happen during the summer – and we don’t know why

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Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos

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Quartz crystals on Mars could preserve signs of ancient life

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