Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the solar system: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...

One Martian day is equivalent to 24 hours and 29 minutes on Earth. A day on Mars is known as a “sol.” One Martian year takes 668 sols, which works out to 687 Earth days. That’s why the next ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

While Monument Valley’s buttes and mesas can reach up to 1,000 feet (300 meters) above the valley floor and cover an area of 145 square miles, the Martian mounds reach 1,800 feet (550 meters ...

The setting of a solar system war is a familiar setting, that's been explored in various stories. Stories From Sol: The Gun Dog is a visual novel set in a ...

This small, solar-powered rotorcraft became the first ... of up to 11 pounds and cover a range of up to 1.9 miles per Martian day. The increased size and payload capacity would allow this new ...

Scientists may have finally cracked a 50-year-old mystery surrounding the so-called "Martian dichotomy"—the sharp contrast between the southern highlands and northern lowlands of Mars.

Assumptions are made that the craft has already successfully completed a launch and transfer from Earth to a 1-sol Martian Orbit. This allows the team to focus only on EDL methods and technologies.