Science news articles about 'rocks on mars'

... Orbiter's HiRISE instrument. HiRISE can image rocks on Mars as small as roughly a yard and a half across. ... first helping select the landing site for the 2004 Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission, then ...

... exposed to liquid water. The phyllosilicate-containing rocks on Mars therefore preserve a unique record ... deal of water must have flushed though the rocks and soil. This is really exciting because we're ...

A US probe spots rocks on Mars that suggest the planet would have been more hospitable for life than previously thought.

... came together. To investigate the regular patterns of the rocks on Mars, Pelletier combined three standard ... same numerical models to larger features on Mars such as sand dunes and wind-sculpted valleys ...

Rocks from Mars could be brought to the UK within the next 20 years, if a bid to host a study facility is successful.

... . They then mixed the minerals in different proportions with basalt, the most important volcanic rock on Mars, and measured how the infrared reflectance varied at the same wavelength levels as those ...