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NASA's newest Mars images offer striking clues to Earth's neighbor
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (356+ words) NASAâs Curiosity rover has captured unusual polygon-shaped terrain on Mars, revealing a honeycomb-like pattern that scientists believe may be linked to ancient wet-and-dry cycles. The features were observed at ground level in Gale Crater and measure about 4 to 8 centimeters…...
Dreams of a young Geology student
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (55+ words) Post Courier By John M Samar On Friday, October 9th 2026, the Earth Science Division at the University of Papua New Guinea held its Open Day at Waigani Campus. Choose from one of the two payment options below to continue reading and…...
Vredefort Dome is the world’s largest and second oldest verified meteorite impact site
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (353+ words) 9 October 2026 – The Vredefort Dome is the world’s largest and second oldest verified meteorite impact site, located in Potchefstroom, North West, Parys in Free State and Gauteng Province. According to information, the Vredefort Dome was formed approximately 2 billion years ago when…...
Highly Porous Rocks Responsible for Bennu's Surprisingly Craggy Surface
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (504+ words) OSIRIS-REx mission scientists thought sampling a piece of Bennu would be like a walk on the beach, but the surprisingly craggy surface proved to be more of a challenge. Scientists thought asteroid Bennu's surface would be like a sandy beach,…...
Mars’s oddest cloud may be even odder than we thought
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (451+ words) Scientists using the European Space Agency's Mars Express, in combination with a state-of-the-art meteorological model of the Red Planet, have found that there may be some very exotic physics behind Mars’s most curious cloud. Every spring and summer in Mars’s…...
New Python tool turns sand-grain simulations into the physics of flowing landscapes
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (588+ words) Researchers have released Pysammos, an open-source Python package that transforms particle-scale simulation data from the Discrete Element Method into the continuum fields such as pressure and stress needed to understand granular flows from landslides to magma....
ESA’s Mars Express Orbiter Spots Elongated Cloud in Martian Atmosphere
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (309+ words) Since September 13, 2018, ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft has been observing the evolution of a water ice cloud formation hovering in the vicinity of Arsia Mons, the southernmost in a trio of giant Martian volcanoes known collectively as Tharsis Montes. The white,…...
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Just Drilled Its 48th Rock on Mars, and Scientists Want to Know What’s Inside
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (469+ words) Curiosity has now covered about 38 kilometers, or 24.6 miles, and climbed more than 1 kilometer, or 0.6 miles, in elevation. NASA’s Curiosity rover has drilled into a new rock target on Mars, marking the 48th time it has collected this kind of sample in…...
Mars’s strangest cloud is even weirder than we thought, scientists say
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (417+ words) Martian surface has objects with ‘exotic physics’, researchers say The strangest cloud on Mars appears to be even weirder than we thought, scientists have said. For years, scientists have been interested in the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, or AMEC. It…...
Planet Mars or ice cream? Five times the Red Planet looked absolutely delicious (and the science behind what's really going on)
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (646+ words) Views of Mars captured by the Mars Express orbiter From the hundreds and thousands of images of Mars captured by rovers on the Martian surface, you could be forgiven for thinking the Red Planet to be a boring, monochrome world....