This mosaic is made up of more than 100 images captured by NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter, which operated around Mars from 1976 to 1980. The scar across the center of the planet is the vast Valles ...

The "Face on Mars" captured by NASA's Viking 1 orbiter in 1976 (left) and Mars Global Surveyor in 2001 (right) The desire to attribute geometric formations on Mars to intelligent design taps into ...

"She actually created a system that simulated Mars atmospheric pressure," said Tillman, "so it was just like it's like on Mars — temperature, pressure, humidity — all of that in a chamber." Tillman, ...

SpaceX’s Starship prototype has successfully reached orbit, marking a historic milestone in spaceflight. Designed for deep space missions, including Moon and Mars exploration, this breakthrough could ...

SEE ALSO: NASA asked for cheaper ways to get Mars samples. It had one all along. The new data comes from the Zhurong rover, part of China's Tianwen-1 mission ... the U.S. Viking 2 lander touched ...

Scientists have used orbiters and rovers to find dried streams, lakes, and gullies on Mars that hint at its watery past, but their cavalry of robots has struggled to prove the Red Planet ever had an ...

In the 1970s, NASA’s Mariner 9 and Viking 2 were the first ... “The Mariner 9 orbiter first imaged giant canyons on Hesperian surfaces of Mars in the 1970s, but they are generally viewed ...

The mosaic is composed of 102 Viking Orbiter images of Mars. The center of the scene (lat -8 ... and ground basalt with particles less than one micrometer in size (1/100th diameter of a human hair) ...