From orbit high above Mars, a familiar shape has appeared in an utterly alien landscape: a vast feature that looks uncannily like a butterfly pressed into the planet’s dusty crust. Captured by NASA’s ...
Slices from the edge of Mars reveal a layered atmosphere of delicate complexity. A European spacecraft has captured a luminous mille-feuille of dust enveloping the red planet in unprecedented detail.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest pass to Mars on Oct. 3, and Red Planet spacecraft were ready for it. The Nasa-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Chile first observed the comet on July 1, ...