Scientific exploration of extraterrestrial planets has gripped human imagination since the advent of space travel. Human missions to Mars could produce insight into the essential …
Abstract The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has been traversing strata at the base of Aeolis Mons (informally known as Mount Sharp) since September 2014. The Murray …
The first samples collected by the Mars 2020 mission represent units exposed on the Jezero Crater floor, from the potentially oldest Séítah formation outcrops to the potentially youngest …
INTRODUCTION The primary goal of NASA's Curiosity rover mission is to explore and quantitatively assess a local region on Mars' surface as a potential habitat for past or present …
Based on four decades of research by Professor Andrew Goudie, this volume provides a state-of-the-art synthesis of our understanding of desert geomorphology. It presents a truly …
DW Beaty, MM Grady, HY McSween… - … & Planetary Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Return of samples from the surface of Mars has been a goal of the international Mars science community for many years. Affirmation by NASA and ESA of the importance of Mars …
Remote sensing observations and rover missions have documented the presence of playas, salts, and wind erosion landforms of lacustrine sediments on Mars. All of these observations …
Scientists use the Earth as a tool for astrobiology by analyzing planetary field analogues (ie terrestrial samples and field sites that resemble planetary bodies in our Solar System). In …
A Oren - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Salts are abundant on Mars, and any liquid water that is present or may have been present on the planet is expected to be hypersaline. Halophilic archaea (family Halobacteriaceae) …