Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a phenomenon known as Martian dichotomy. The Southern Highlands are older, higher in ...

Beneath the surface of Mars lie an array of mysterious "blobs" that might hold clues about the earliest days of our solar system. NASA's InSight Lander discovered the dense lumps scattered through the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Mars played by different rules than Earth when forming its magnetic field. Rather than generating magnetism with a solid core surrounded by liquid—Earth’s approach—the Red Planet ...

Locked beneath a single-plate crust, Mars’ mantle holds a frozen record of the red planet’s primordial past, according to a new study of Martian seismic data collected by NASA’s InSight mission. The ...

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Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go beneath the surface,... The core of Mars looks like Earth’s. What makes the ...

Did Mars once have a full magnetic field in its ancient past like Earth does today, or was it lopsided and only covered one-half of the planet? This is what a recent study published in Geophysical ...

InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) is a NASA Discovery Program mission that will place a single geophysical lander on Mars to study its deep ...

Unravelling the interior structure of Mars is critical for understanding its geological evolution and current dynamical processes. Mars seismology investigates the generation, propagation and ...

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Seismic activity on the Red Planet – unsurprisingly called marsquakes instead of earthquakes – has allowed scientists to draw some conclusions about the rocky material that makes up the planet's ...