The Mars Scene: Mars Photos

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Images of Mars taken by a visual and infrared camera designed at Arizona State University (ASU) take a star turn in the new hit movie “The Martian.” Last November, the film production company for "The Martian" approached ASU's School of Earth and Space Movie goers across the country will get the chance to see Matt Damon trek across "Mars" on Friday, Oct. 2 when the highly-anticipated film "The Martian" premiers in theaters nationwide. Unfortunately, Damon is not actually on Mars (obviously). Instead This image looks like it could have been taken out on the sandy slopes of Texas, or one of a hundred different locations on Earth; however, this stunning photo actually comes from another world. As the latest image reveals, the Mars rover Curiosity is a Curiosity sends images from Mars showing pebbles that have been transported by a riverNasa/Reuters Following on from Nasa's recent announcement that there is flowing water on Mars, the Curiosity rover has revealed that rounded pebbles on the Red Planet had NASA's latest image release from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has offered an up-close look at the real-world setting for sci-fi blockbuster The Martian. Snapped by the spacecraft's telescopic camera, the photos detail several Mars sites that appear in Astrobiologist Alison Olcott Marshall could not have timed her new class at the University of Kansas any better. This semester she’s teaching students about Mars. The class filled up fast. In the next section they’re starting this week, they’ll talk .

To see how shape varied in a more Mars-like environment, they examined stones at the Dog Canyon alluvial fan in New Mexico, which is somewhat similar to the Martian deposits. They even reduced the resolution on the images of those pebbles to match the reso In the highly-anticipate sci-fi drama "The Martian" — premiering in theaters nationwide Friday — Matt Damon plays Mark Watney — a NASA astronaut who is marooned on Mars. Watney is a crew member on the Ares 3 mission that touches down and sets up camp Currently cold and dry Mars may have had rivers some 3 billion years ago. Scientists now have evidence that a river once flowed for tens of miles through Gale Crater on the Red Planet. Pebbles, captured in images beamed back to Earth by the Mars Three billion years ago, however, the situation may have been much different. In 2012 the Mars Curiosity rover beamed images back to Earth containing some of the most concrete evidence that water once flowed in abundance on the planet. Small, remarkably .