Tag: Mars
March 1, 2017
Martian Winds Carve Mountains, Move Dust, Raise Dust
On Mars, wind rules. Wind has been shaping the Red Planet’s landscapes for billions of years and continues to do so today. Studies using both…
Read MoreNovember 22, 2016
Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what’s in Lake Superior, largest of the Great…
Read MoreNovember 10, 2016
A Funnel on Mars Could be a Place to Look for Alien Life
A strangely shaped depression on Mars could be a new place to look for signs of life on the Red Planet, according to a University…
Read MoreMay 26, 2016
Researchers Find Ice Age Record in Mars’ Polar Cap
Scientists using radar data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found a record of the most recent Martian ice age in the planet’s north…
Read MoreApril 12, 2016
Martian Mile-High Mounds Mystery: The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind
Rising from the floor of Gale Crater on Mars, a stack of sedimentary rock called Mount Sharp towers 5.5 kilometers above the ground. The mountain…
Read MoreMarch 31, 2016
Mile-High Mars Mounds Built by Wind and Climate Change
New research has found that wind carved massive mounds of more than a mile high on Mars over billions of years. Their location helps…
Read MoreOctober 22, 2014
Life on Mars
Gary Kocurek, professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the Jackson School of Geosciences, was part of the team that reported two new findings…
Read MoreJanuary 4, 2012
Lecture Recap: The Latest on Martian Ice
by Thomas Minor Jack Holt, research scientist at the Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), is currently researching Amazonian ice deposits on Mars, both at the polar…
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