This map was made using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera as well as the European Space Agency’s (ESA) High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC).
Caves, Craters, Mountains, Subsurface, Lava Tubes
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Away Team Gear: Testing A New Sample Collection System On The Moon
Editor’s note: One of the first things you learn in biology is sterile technique – the taking of a sample without contaminating it. You learn it in microbiology and later […]
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Deep Terrestrial Indigenous Microbial Community Dominated By Candidatus Frackibacter
Characterizing deep subsurface microbial communities informs our understanding of Earth’s biogeochemistry as well as the search for life beyond the Earth.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth: The Search for Dark Oxygen
By Emily Greenhalgh – The elevator ride down was quicker than he expected. South Africa has the deepest active mines on Earth. And MBL scientist Emil Ruff and an international […]
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A Comprehensive Framework For Assessing Terrestrial Analogue Field Sites For Ocean Worlds
Field studies at terrestrial analogue sites represent an important contribution to the science of ocean worlds.
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Finding Water On The Moon And Mars: Humanity’s Extraterrestrial Future
The inclination to explore across vast expanses has been a continual part of human history. In voyages across the Atlantic, or North America, one of the greatest obstacles was the […]
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How Io Became The Most Volcanic Body In Our Solar System
Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io are each likely powered by their own chamber of roiling hot magma rather than […]
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Mars Perseverance Astrobiology Rover Tracks At Rio Chiquito
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of an area nicknamed “Rio Chiquito” on Nov. 23, 2024, the 1,337th Martian day, or sol, of […]
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Biomolecular Analysis of Soil Samples and Rock Imagery for Tracing Evidence of Life Using a Mobile Robot
The search for evidence of past life on Mars presents a tremendous challenge that requires the usage of very advanced robotic technologies to overcome it.
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A New Strategy for the Exploration of Venus
The 2023-2032 Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey Origins, Worlds, and Life recommended that “NASA develop scientific exploration strategies, as it has for Mars, in areas of broad scientific importance, […]