The Mars Scene: Pics Of Mars

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A photo showing a region of Mars this wide is unusual, ESA officials said, because Mars Express typically takes images pointing straight down toward the planet's surface at an altitude of about 186 miles (300 km). That's the closest to the planet that the This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Big Sky" site, where its drill collected the mission's fifth taste of Mount Sharp. The scene combines dozens of images taken during the 1,126th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's There’s more evidence the red planet may have once been a wet planet. A new NASA study confirmed Thursday that there were once lakes and streams on Mars at some point about 3.5 billion years ago. Based on data from the Curiosity rover, scientists found Go now and experience Hollywood’s blockbuster new space epic ‘The Martian’ helmed by world renowned director Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon as the protagonist, NASA astronaut Mark Watney. And you can follow Watney’s dramatic fictional path For years, a team of NASA scientists had pondered over the enigmatic dark streaks lining the inner and outer faces of craters on the Martian surface, shown below. But no longer. NASA announced the answer to the conundrum Monday: The streaks are evidence of In particular, Nasa confirmed that 'dark fingers' spotted in Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) images are likely made by liquid moving across, or beneath, the planet's surface. These marks, which lengthen and darken as the seasons change, are the first .

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 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 [In Photos: Is Water Flowing on Mars?] Recommended: Could you pass Astronomy 101? Take the quiz! In the 1600s and 1700s, astronomers tinkered with nascent telescopes and discovered that Mars, like Earth, was a planet and had a roughly 24-hour day-and-night 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 .