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China’s Mars rover refuses to wake up

Even if it doesn't wake up, it was still a good run for the Chinese robot.

Water stripped from Mars' upper atmosphere may explain how it became a barren Red Planet

For billions of years, Mars has had quite the leak.

Mysterious martian gouges carved by hovering dry ice

It’s like Christmas before Christmas – the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has started sending back images it took of the red planet, and there’s just so many fantastic stuff it feels like Christmas has come earlier this year. Now, the MRO sent back images peculiar features along the slopes of dunes: long, sharply defined grooves (pictured) that seem […]

Buried Mars river tells of recent megaflood

Our understanding and appreciation of Mars has greatly shifted in the past decade alone. If previously scientists used to thought the planet had been dead and bared geologically-wise for billions of years, recent evidence shows that Mars has been marked by a series of geological events. Using radar technology, scientists have now found water-carved channels buried […]

Mars covered in oceans of water: how the red planet might have looked billions of years ago [FANTASTIC PHOTOS]

There seems to be consisting evidence supplied both by past and recent rover missions – like the ever sturdy Opportunity, the eager newcomer Curiosity – and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter – a spacecraft currently hovering over Mars – that our neighboring red planet was once most likely covered by oceans and lakes and was layered by a thick […]