The planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, are called terrestrial because they have a compact, rocky surface like Earth’s terra firma. The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the ...

Mastcam will be busy in this plan, acquiring a large 70-frame L0 mosaic covering the entire crater to assess its morphology, as well as stereo imaging on the western rim where more dark rocks are ...

Recently, an international research team published a comprehensive review in the journal Reviews of Geophysics on our state of understanding of Earth’s “climate sensitivity,” a key measure of how much ...

Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This research could lead to next-generation technology that both enables deep-space ...

Observations from Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, and other telescopes reveal that excess haze on Uranus makes it paler than Neptune Astronomers may now understand why the similar ...

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A look back at a few Mars 2020 mission highlights of 2024 Perseverance’s past year operating on the surface of Mars was filled with some of the mission’s highest highs, but also some of its greatest ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope watched a mysterious dark vortex on Neptune abruptly steer away from a likely death on the giant blue planet. The storm, which is wider than the ...

In March, a NASA-led research team announced that Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland’s fastest-flowing and thinning glacier over the past two decades, is now flowing more slowly, thickening and advancing ...