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New Water Map Of Mars Will Prove Invaluable For Future Exploration

A new map of Mars is changing the way we think about the planet’s watery past, and showing where we should land in the future. The map shows mineral deposits across the planet and has been ...
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Scientists map the smartest places to hunt for ancient Mars life

Mars is no longer just a blank red canvas for planetary scientists. A new generation of high resolution maps is turning the ...
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New globe-like Mars map lets you see whole planet

Humans haven’t set foot on Mars — yet — but we’ve already got the maps drawn up. A new map released earlier this month shows the Red Planet in all its dusty glory. The map was created with real photos ...
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New NASA Map Provides More Evidence That Mars Was Once Like Earth

NASA scientists have discovered additional evidence that Mars once underwent plate tectonics, slow movement of the planet’s crust, like the present-day Earth. A new map of Mars’ magnetic field made by ...
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The Martian treasure map that could lead to ancient aliens

Today, Mars is known as the red planet, for its rust-colored desert landscape. Once upon a time, Mars was a very different ...
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Digitally Mapping Mars Has Never Been Easier With This Rendering Technique

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have some exciting ideas about the future of digital mapping for space exploration. They completed a paper titled ...
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Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet

Camille Flammarion's work imagined what might exist beyond Earth in the universe. Three Lions/Hulton Archive via Getty Images Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an ...
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Tour Mars with the most fantastically detailed map of the planet ever made

Thanks to the Mars Odyssey probe and 21,000 high-resolutions photographs it took of the planet’s surface, we now have the best map ever made of Mars – and you can check it out online right now! The ...
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Mars is covered in evidence of ancient lakes, rain and snow — but scientists aren't sure how that's possible

"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...
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Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic ...
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Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Matthew Shindell, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) Living in today’s age of ...