Thin water-ice clouds that are apparent in ultraviolet light give the Red Planet a frosty appearance. The icy northern polar ...

In the study published in Nature Astronomy, the scientists explained that the clay deposits rich in minerals formed when Mars ...

A clay-rich mesa in the Hellas basin of Mars. The blue color near the rim is aluminum bearing clays. The red-orange color below that is iron and magnesium bearing clays. The image captures an area ...

8 must-see destinations for your (future) Mars vacationOlympus Mons is the most extreme volcano in the solar system. Located in the Tharsis volcanic region, it's about the same size as the state ...

But we can see extensive evidence of past water, such as regions of "ghost dunes" found in Noctis Labyrinthus and Hellas basin. Researchers say these regions used to hold dunes that were tens of ...

'Ghost Dunes' in Noctis Labyrinthus and Hellas basin Dune fields dot the red planet's surface, and surviving aeolian strata suggest that dunes existed on ancient Mars as well.

Phyllosilicates identified at Enns and Steyr craters in the Tyrrhena Terra region of Mars (located near the martian equator northeast of the large Hellas basin) provide clues to ancient geologic ...

Jezero is a hotspot now, but Hellas has only been visited once, and that was by accident when the Soviet Union’s Mars 2 lander crashed there in 1971.

Webb’s first near-infrared spectrum of Mars, captured by the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) Sept. 5, 2022, as part of the Guaranteed Time Observation Program 1415, over 3 slit gratings ...

What's notably strange is the Hellas Basin’s darkness, especially when you consider that the sun is beaming directly down on it — something that caught even NASA scientists off guard.

"The Hellas Basin is a lower altitude, and thus experiences higher air pressure," said Villanueva, who is also the principal investigator of Mars and Ocean Worlds studies for Webb.