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27 sie 2024 · Determining whether there was a northern ocean on Mars is crucial for understanding its climate history, geological processes and potential for ancient life, and for guiding future explorations.
15 wrz 2021 · By studying the topography and mineral composition of a portion of the Arabia Terra region in northern Mars, scientists recently found evidence for thousands of such eruptions, or “super eruptions,” which are the most violent volcanic explosions known.
13 cze 2010 · Here, we used global databases of known deltaic deposits, valley networks 8 and present-day martian topography to test for the occurrence of an ocean on early Mars. The distribution of ancient ...
4 kwi 2018 · The ancient terrains of Mars are puzzling. Mars is currently cold and dry with a thin atmosphere. But valley networks sculpted more than 3.5 billion years ago are strikingly similar in their...
27 gru 2023 · Scientists are investigating this region of Mars, known as Jezero Crater, to see if they can find evidence of ancient life recorded in the rocks. Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley provides a guided tour of a richly detailed panorama of the rover’s location in November 2023, taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument.
19 paź 2016 · What Mars Maps Got Right (and Wrong) Through Time. From the first map of Mars in 1831 to a new gravity map released in March, cartography has shaped how we understand the red planet.
10 gru 1999 · These maps show two distinctive basins in the northern lowlands, the circular Utopia basin of probable ancient impact origin and the irregularly shaped North Polar basin (Fig. 3C). The lowest topography in the northern lowlands occurs in the North Polar basin (∼−5250 m).
