Science news articles about 'Northern Mars'

Sand dunes in a vast area of northern Mars long thought to be frozen in time are changing ... in about 40 percent of these far-northern monitoring locations over the two-Mars-year period of the study ...

... how green is their valley? That's because at that time the Phoenix Mars Mission space vehicle will be touching down on its three legs to make a soft landing onto the northern Mars terrain called Green Valley ...

One week after landing on far-northern Mars, NASA Phoenix spacecraft lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of the lander's Robotic Arm.

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander showed no sign during February that it has revived itself after the northern Mars winter.

Extensive radar mapping of the middle-latitude region of northern Mars shows that thick masses of buried ice are quite common beneath protective coverings of rubble.

Minerals in northern Mars craters seen by two orbiters suggest that a phase in Mars' early history with conditions favorable to life occurred globally, not just in the south.

A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14.

Giant whirlwind photographed as it snakes its way across a plain in northern Mars