The selection of the Discovery Program InSight landing site took over four years from initial
identification of possible areas that met engineering constraints, to downselection via …

Early Mars climate research has well-defined goals (MEPAG 2018). Achieving these goals
requires geologists and climate modelers to coordinate. Coordination is easier if results are …

Clay minerals, or analogously phyllosilicates, are some of the most astonishing minerals
ever discovered on Mars due to their roles as indicators of water-rock interaction. Their …

Volcanic activity on Mars peaked during the Noachian and Hesperian periods but has
continued since then in isolated locales. Elysium Planitia hosts numerous young, fissure-fed …

Extensive evidence of landform-scale martian geomorphic changes has been acquired in
the last decade, and the number and range of examples of surface activity have increased …

We derive the depth of the water ice table on Mars by fitting seasonal surface temperature
trends acquired by the Mars Climate Sounder and Thermal Emission Imaging System with a …

Although not the prime focus of the InSight mission, the near-surface geology and physical
properties investigations provide critical information for both placing the instruments …

Laboratory experiments indicate that the fluid threshold friction speed, u* tf, required to
initiate fully developed aeolian saltation is much higher on Mars than on Earth. A …

What allows a planet to be both within a potentially habitable zone and sustain habitability
over long geologic time? With the advent of exoplanetary astronomy and the ongoing …

Landforms and deposits observed on the Martian surface suggest that Mars' early climate
supported rivers and lakes over a time span of more than a billion years. But, like Earth …