Mars Science Laboratory Our How Things Work feature for November 2011 focuses on the landing of the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory in August 2012. But that will be just the start of this most ...

It’s been long thought that Mars shines red due to the rusted iron ... and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with advanced laboratory experiments. Findings suggested that ...

We're not the first to consider ferrihydrite as the reason for why Mars is red, but it has never been proven the way we proved it now using observational data and novel laboratory methods to ...

Researchers are looking underfoot to uncover the mysterious past of Mars: Martian regoliths in ... models fail to account for the fact that laboratory experiments have demonstrated that the ...

However, new analysis of spacecraft observations in combination with novel laboratory techniques suggests that Mars’s red colour is better matched by iron oxides containing water, known as ...