Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and electrons that flows from the sun's outermost atmosphere (corona), traveling at ...

NASA’s MAVEN mission has revealed a phenomenon in Mars’ atmosphere never seen before. Observations captured in December 2023 ...

In December 2023, scientists looking at Mars data stumbled across something completely unexpected—observations of an ...

Solar wind washes over the planets, but it briefly disappeared at Mars due to an event on the sun. Mars's atmosphere temporarily expanded by thousands of kilometers. NASA's MAVEN orbiter observed the ...

Discover the Zwan-Wolf effect at Mars, revealing how solar wind interacts with the planet's weak magnetic field.

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Wind power on Mars is feasible, a new study suggests. Researchers demonstrated a small, lightweight wind turbine under simulated Martian atmospheric conditions, at the Aarhus Wind Tunnel Simulator II ...

"On Mars, the past is written in stone — but the present is written in sand." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Perseverance ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Mars experienced a sudden rupture in the cosmic order about one year ago. It was almost like the red planet had briefly been transported to ...