This view of Mars' Valles Marineris hemisphere from July 9, 2013, is a mosaic of 102 Viking Orbiter images. At the centre is the Valles Marineris canyon, over 2,000 km long and up to 8 km deep. This ...

A new study in the journal Nature Communications reveals that Mars is red for very much the same reason it may have once been home to life — namely, that it was a wet planet. This is in line with ...

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A new study claims that a mineral found in Mars' dust called ferrihydrite, which forms in the presence of cool water, is likely what gives the planet its reddish hue.

Two different teams of scientists made Martian discoveries this week, revealing a little more about our mysterious planetary ...

Mars’s red dust may contain ferrihydrite, an iron mineral that forms in water. This suggests ancient Mars had water for ...

The study, led by Adomas Valantinas of Brown University and published in Nature Communications, has confirmed the real reason ...

The fundamental question of why Mars is red has been considered for hundreds if not for thousands of years,” Adam Valantinas, ...

Ferrihydrite, a water-rich iron mineral, plays an important role in giving the red planet its signature hue, according to the ...

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The findings offer the most direct subsurface evidence of an ancient ocean on the red planet. Although orbital images have ...

Mars, the “Red Planet,” has fascinated scientists for centuries. A new study suggests that its red colour comes from ...