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A 1962 map of Mars published by the U.S. Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, showing canals snaking through the Martian landscape. At the time, the existence of the canals was still highly controversial as no close-up pictures of Mars had been taken (until Mariner 4's flyby in 1965).
12 gru 2023 · Analyzing this abraded rock patch dubbed “Bills Bay,” the PIXL instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover found it rich in carbonates (purple) and silica (green), both of which are good at preserving signs of ancient life. The image is overlaid with the instrument’s chemical data.
15 wrz 2021 · Scientists found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of “super eruptions,” the biggest volcanic eruptions known, over a 500-million-year period.
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...
12 lip 2001 · Thus his surprising 1877 map of Mars was taken seriously. The wonderfully evocative martian nomenclature (consider, for example, Tharsis, Chryse, Elysium, Amazonis, Trivium Charontis and...
7 paź 2019 · If you could travel back in time 3.5 billion years, what would Mars look like? The picture is evolving among scientists working with NASA’s Curiosity rover. Imagine ponds dotting the floor of Gale Crater, the 100-mile-wide (150-kilometer-wide) ancient basin that Curiosity is exploring.
19 paź 2016 · 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.
