The rover will spend months exploring the Gediz Vallis channel, which could contain clues to the history of liquid water on Mars. Reading time 2 minutes Curiosity has been exploring Mars for nearly 12 ...

The Gediz Vallis channel is visible above the rocky area in the foreground. Mars is a dry and dusty planet these days, but it wasn’t always like that. NASA’s Mars rovers are getting an up close and ...

Diagram highlighting areas of presumed lava channels on Mars Details from the Ascraeus channel (red), meandering across the surface of Mars. The insets in the black boxes show close-ups of some of the ...

Flowing lava can carve or build paths very much like the riverbeds and canyons etched by water, and this probably explains at least one of the meandering channels on the surface of Mars. These results ...