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NASA spacecraft finds solar 'cannonballs' may have stripped Mars of its water — proving decades-old theory
After nearly a decade in orbit, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has, for the first time, directly observed the process that ...
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First direct evidence of how Mars lost its thick atmosphere and water
For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for ...
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Scientists Argue Terraforming Mars Should Start Sooner Than Later
A new study argues that Mars could act as a testing ground for habitat restoration, with lessons learned helping to fight ...
Terraforming Mars Isn’t Sci-Fi Anymore – Here’s What It Would Take
What if we could turn Mars into a second Earth? A group of scientists is revisiting this audacious idea with new eyes, armed ...
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Mars Atmosphere Sputters, Human Spacecraft Catches It in the Act
Data from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft shows that the little atmosphere Mars has sputters, ...
Listen to the eerie sounds of Mars recorded by a NASA rover
The team studying these sounds found that Mars' thin air, composed mostly of carbon dioxide, makes sound waves behave ...
Researchers found key evidence of how Mars’ atmosphere has changed over the years
The data was captured by NASA’s MAVEN, which entered a Mars-bound orbit back in 2014. Since then, the spacecraft has captured ...
Occupy Mars: Scientists Argue Why The Red Planet Should Be Colonised And Why Not
The authors also noted why colonising Mars would not be good for science. Lanza pointed out that terraforming Mars will ...
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A Scientist Has an Explosive Plan to Terraform Mars. It's So Wild That It Might Just Work.
As on Earth, where average atmospheric pressure clocks in at around 101.3 kilopascals (kPa), areas of Mars experience differing levels of atmospheric pressure. The peak of Olympus Mons (the ...
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Here's how we could quickly raise temperatures on Mars
Each of these steps reinforces the others." As Robert Zubrin stated in "The Case for Mars," this process would lead to an atmospheric pressure (atm) of about 300 millibars (30% of Earth's atm at ...