Forget the dusty, rusty landscape you see today. Billions of years ago, Mars may have been soaking wet. Tropical storms might ...

These features were identified by NASA’s Perseverance rover and were determined to be kaolinite, a white, aluminum-rich clay.

The McDermitt Caldera most likely hosts the world's largest deposit of lithium trapped in claystone. Located on the Nevada – ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found rocks on Mars that on Earth usually form in tropical environments. That Mars once hosted ...

New kaolinite-rich rocks uncovered by NASA’s Perseverance rover suggest Mars once hosted warm, rainy environments that may ...

Rocks that stood out as light-colored dots on the reddish-orange surface of Mars now are the latest evidence that areas of the ...

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Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life. NOVA is ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This graph shows the relative elevation of various sampling sites visited by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Colored ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring Mars' Jezero Crater since 2021 with the primary objective to investigate the environments that could have supported life in the past on the Red Planet. In ...

Mars is dry today, but minerals formed in the past tell another story. New research using NASA’s Perseverance rover shows that Jezero Crater experienced more than one watery episode. Each left behind ...