Making Mars Earthlike is not impossible in principle, but the scale of mass, heat, oxygen, and energy required makes it far beyond current capability.

Sand mobilized by wind forms decimeter-scale impact ripples and decameter-scale or larger dunes on Earth and Mars. In addition to those two bedform scales, orbital and in situ images revealed a third ...

As Curiosity continues its exploration of Mars, it recently came across a geological formation that is, to put it mildly, intriguing: a chaotic terrain blanketed in fractured plates whose texture ...

A growing group of researchers is taking a serious look at one of humanity’s most ambitious ideas: transforming Mars into a ...

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover exploring the surface of the red planet. - Paopano/Shutterstock There be dragons on Mars. In some recent snaps taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, dozens of polygon-shaped ...

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