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University Park PA (SPX) Oct 17, 2025 Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the Red Planet. By recreating Mars-like conditions in the lab, a team of researchers from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Penn State demonstrated that fragments of the molecules that make up proteins in E. coli bacteria, if present in Mars' permafrost and ice caps, could remain| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 Mysterious gullies carved into Martian sand dunes have long puzzled planetary scientists. Now, new experiments by Utrecht University Earth scientist Dr Lonneke Roelofs suggest they were dug not by flowing water or lifeforms, but by sliding blocks of solid carbon dioxide that explode and burrow as they sublimate under Martian conditions. Roelofs replicated the process in a controlled "Mars| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Aberystwyth, Wales (SPX) Oct 13, 2025 The search for life on Mars takes a leap forward today, as a key instrument for a major space mission begins its journey from Aberystwyth University to Italy for testing. The infrared spectrometer, named Enfys, will be a part of the suite of remote sensing instruments onboard the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover. The Rosalind Franklin Rover is part of the European Space Agency's ExoMa| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 15, 2025 Life on Mars, if it ever existed, would need to survive an environment defined by violence and toxicity - from meteorite impacts to soil laced with corrosive perchlorate salts. Now, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have found that even simple organisms like yeast can endure these punishing conditions by activating ancient stress-response systems. Led by molecular biolog| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 10, 2025 Scientists have long debated how much water Mars once held and how it faded to today's arid world. A new study in Geology mines "ice archives" preserved inside impact craters to reconstruct a climate history marked by multiple ice ages, each leaving progressively less ice behind. Led by Associate Professor Trishit Ruj of Okayama University, with colleagues Hanaya Okuda, Hitoshi Hasegawa, a| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 Combing 20 years of Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter imagery, ESA-led researchers cataloged 1,039 dust devils to show how surface winds loft and transport dust across Mars. Published in Science Advances, the work indicates peak near-surface winds are much faster than previously thought and refines models of Martian weather and climate. The open catalogue, available is online, agg| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 Despite Mars's tenuous air, winds there play a dominant role in climate and dust transport. An international team led by the University of Bern reports that dust devils and the winds enveloping them routinely surge to 44 m/s, roughly 160 km/h, far exceeding earlier assumptions based on surface measurements. The study mined European orbiter data from CaSSIS on ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbite| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 - Simulation results from Stevens Institute of Technology researchers Iser Pena and Hao Chen indicate that who you send to Mars matters as much as what you send. Published October 8, 2025 in PLOS One,| Mars Daily
Perth, Australia (SPX) Oct 06, 2025 Curtin University is helping unlock the secrets of life on Mars and advance next-generation robotics and autonomous systems, with two new international agreements signed this week at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney. Curtin signed a Statement of Strategic Intent to formalise the LifeSpringsMars Working Group, and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India-based techno| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 01, 2025 ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has captured the most detailed view yet of Mars's atmosphere, showing a fine layering of dust and ice particles that resembles a cosmic mille-feuille. The images reveal a delicate stratification extending from the surface up to 55 km in altitude, shedding light on processes shaping the Red Planet's restless skies. The data were obtained on January 21, 2024,| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Amherst MA (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst are part of a team that has identified a unique mineral on Mars, described in Nature Communications. Named ferric hydroxysulfate, the mineral provides clues about the Martian environment and history of the planet, including the possibility of former lava, ash or hydrothermal activity. Mars gets its trademark red hue from the abundanc| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 30, 2025 With repeated strikes of a 10-pound (4.5-kilogram) sledgehammer, a team of NASA-supported researchers has demonstrated a low-tech but powerful method to locate caves that may one day provide shelter for astronauts on the Moon and Mars. The experiments, conducted near Flagstaff, Arizona, and Tulelake, California, used terrain with geologic features similar to those of planetary lava fields.| Mars News, Science, Technology at MarsDaily.com
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 19, 2025 - New research using NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered strong evidence that Mars' Jezero Crater experienced multiple episodes of fluid activity - each with conditions that could have supported l| Mars Daily
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 26, 2025 - Recent tests suggest that swarms of spherical tumbleweed rovers could offer an affordable and efficient way to explore Mars. Experiments conducted in a wind tunnel and on natural terrain show that t| Mars Daily
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 22, 2025 - NASA's Curiosity Mars rover demonstrated a new multitasking capability when capturing this view: It snapped the 15 images that make up the mosaic while simultaneously communicating with an orbiter.| Mars Daily
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 11, 2025 - Last week, the Perseverance rover began an exciting new journey. Driving northwest of the Soroya ridge, Perseverance entered an area filled with a diverse range of boulders that the science team bel| Mars Daily
London UK (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - A PhD student and his supervisor have developed a simple way for testing for active life on Mars and other planets using equipment already on the Mars Curiosity rover and planned for future use on t| Mars Daily
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2025 - Perseverance has continued exploring beyond the rim of Jezero crater, spending time last week at Parnasset conducting a mini-campaign on aeolian bedforms. After wrapping up that work, three separate| Mars Daily
London, UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 - New seismic evidence suggests that Mars's interior is far from the smooth textbook image often imagined. Instead, the planet's mantle is littered with ancient fragments, some up to 4 km wide, formed| Mars Daily
Washington (AFP) Aug 7, 2025 - Elon Musk's SpaceX has agreed to carry Italian experiments on its Starship megarocket during planned future missions to Mars, according to a new deal announced on Thursday.| Mars Daily
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2025 - Thirteen years since Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The six-wheeled robot has been given more autonomy and the ability to multitask| Mars Daily
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2025 - New research led by the SETI Institute has identified an unusual iron sulfate on Mars that may represent a previously unknown mineral, offering new insights into the planet's thermal and geochemical| Mars Daily
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 14, 2025 - A team of Chinese geologists has developed a high-fidelity Mars soil simulant, designated UPRS-1, that closely replicates the regolith of Utopia Planitia. This advancement is expected to aid upcomin| Mars Daily
