Scientists may have finally cracked a 50-year-old mystery surrounding the so-called "Martian dichotomy"—the sharp contrast between the southern highlands and northern lowlands of Mars. Using data from ...
PASADENA, Calif.–The surface landscape of Mars, divided into lowlands in the north and highlands in the south, has long perplexed planetary scientists. Was it sculpted by several small impacts, via ...
For decades, we have been imaging the surface of Mars with ever-finer resolution, cataloging a huge range of features on its surface, studying their composition, and, in a few cases, dispatching ...