8 stories tagged mars, newest first.
97 points by Muhammad523 | 19 comments
Science news feature on Japan's MMX mission, which aims to return samples from Mars's moon Phobos to learn how it formed and possibly retrieve pieces of Mars.
95 points by tiagod | 25 comments
Wikipedia article on Martian chaos terrain, regions of jumbled blocks, mesas and valleys on Mars thought to be linked to ancient water outflow.
8 points by Tomte | 4 comments
Noema Magazine essay arguing that establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk and questioning why so many people are obsessed with it.
433 points by Muhammad523 | 349 comments
Science magazine news article reporting that NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has been cancelled; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
365 points by gumby | 62 comments
Article on how NASA's decorrelation stretch color-enhancement technique, developed for planetary imagery, is used to reveal faded ancient rock art.
766 points by udit99 | 247 comments
An explainer blog post on why the sky is blue and sunsets are red, building a model of light scattering that also covers the Martian sky.
461 points by foobarbecue | 182 comments
NASA news release announcing the end of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission after three years, due to rotor blade damage that prevents further flight.
370 points by Tommstein | 124 comments
Phys.org news article reporting that NASA has regained contact with its Ingenuity mini-helicopter on Mars after a communications loss.