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The textures of Arcadia Planitia, captured in 2001 by the Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

Possible new type of glacier just discovered on Mars

By Stephanie Pappas

Unusual landforms on Mars' Arcadia Planitia appear to be debris-covered glaciers flowing on a flat plain.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity takes its third flight on the Red Planet in this zoomed-in view of a photo from the Perseverance rover taken on April 25, 2021.

Mars helicopter Ingenuity goes long distance in 3rd flight on Red Planet

By Mike Wall

Ingenuity aced its third-ever Martian flight early Sunday morning (April 25), adding to its already impressive resume.

The north pole of Mars glows blue and gold in this false-color heat map.

Strange blue structures glow on Mars in new NASA image

By Brandon Specktor

A lovely new image of the Martian north pole shows the Red Planet streaked with blue.

NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is seen by the Perseverance rover after unlocking its rotor blades on April 7, 2021.

NASA delays Mars helicopter Ingenuity's 1st flight to April 14

By Meghan Bartels

NASA has delayed the first flight of its Mars helicopter Ingenuity after the vehicle's last test ended earlier than planned.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter does a slow spin test of its blades on April 8, 2021, the 48th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This image was captured by the Mastcam-Z on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.

NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is 'go' for historic 1st flight on Sunday

By Elizabeth Howell

Humanity's first helicopter on Mars has been cleared for a historic takeoff.

This low-resolution view of the floor of Mars’ Jezero Crater and a portion of two wheels of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover was captured by the agency’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter on April 3, 2021. It’s the first color photo taken by Ingenuity on the Martian surface.

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity snaps 1st color photo on Red Planet

By Mike Wall

The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper captured its first color photograph on Saturday (April 3), shortly after being lowered to the Martian dirt by the Perseverance rover.

The Perseverance rover used its SuperCam laser to study this strange green rock on Mars.

What's up with this weird green rock on Mars? Perseverance rover is trying to find out.

By Elizabeth Howell

Perseverance's laser hasn't yet penetrated the mystery of a strange Martian rock near the rover's new digs.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of the "spiders" at Mars' south pole on May 13, 2018.

Spooky 'spiders on Mars' finally explained after two decades

By Brandon Specktor

Enormous "spiders" cover the Martian south pole, and scientists finally have experimental evidence to show how they're created.

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft orbiting Mars captured this stunning view of a crescent Red Planet on March 18, 2021. Shown here is the planet's northern hemisphere from a distance of 6,850 miles (11,000 kilometers).

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft captures stunning crescent Mars photos

By Andrew Jones

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft has captured stunning images of Mars as a bright red sunlit crescent in deep space.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used two different cameras to create this selfie in front of a rock outcrop named Mont Mercou, which stands 20 feet (6 meters) tall.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover snaps scenic selfie at 'Mont Mercou'

By Samantha Mathewson

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity posed for a selfie in front of a beautiful Martian rock outcrop called "Mont Mercou" after probing the area for clues about the Red Planet's past.

Technicians carefully lower the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover.

This golden box will soon make oxygen on Mars. That's great news for human explorers.

By Adam Mann

Mars' Perseverance rover will help pave the way for future humans to travel to the Red Planet with a small instrument known as the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE).

This mosaic of Mars is composed of about 100 Viking Orbiter images.

Mars may hide oceans of water beneath its crust, study finds

By Charles Q. Choi

Oceans' worth of water may remain buried in the crust of Mars, and not lost to space as previously long thought, a new study finds.

A Mars Express image of Arsia Mons on Mars and its strange long cloud, taken on July 19, 2020.

The weird long cloud on Mars is finally revealing some of its secrets

By Chelsea Gohd

A European spacecraft is unraveling the secrets of the weird long cloud that has been appearing again and again in the Martian sky for years.

The Perseverance rover's wind sensor has been deployed, as this shot by one of the robot's navigation cameras shows.

NASA's Perseverance rover deploys wind sensor on Mars

By Mike Wall

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance continues getting up to speed on the Red Planet.

The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, along with its parachute and back shell, heat shield and descent stage, in the Jezero Crater region of Mars.

Perseverance is a tiny pale speck on Mars in this orbiter's eerie photo

By Mindy Weisberger

A camera on the ExoMars orbiter recently captured a photo showing a very, very tiny Perseverance on Mars.

A portion of the panorama captured by the Mastcam-Z camera system aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The full panorama consists of 142 images taken on Feb. 21, 2021.

Perseverance rover snaps gorgeous HD panorama of Mars landing site

By Mike Wall

Perseverance has captured a high-definition, 360-degree panorama of its surroundings on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater, which harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago.

The rover captured this image with one of its navigational cameras on Feb. 22.

Watch the astonishing video of Perseverance landing on Mars

By Rafi Letzter

For the first time ever, you can watch video of a rover landing on Mars. It's amazing.

This is the first image Perseverance beamed home from its landing site immediately upon touching down.

Now that Perseverance has landed on Mars, what will the rover do inside Jezero Crater?

By Adam Mann

Looking at the engineering and science behind selecting samples for NASA's Perseverance rover.

This is the first image Perseverance beamed home from its landing site immediately upon touching down.

Perseverance beams back first images of Mars

By Rafi Letzter

NASA's Perseverance rover sent home two images immediately upon its successful landing on the Martian surface Thursday (Feb. 18).

An artist's depiction of NASA's Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, storing samples of Martian rocks in tubes for future delivery to Earth. Perseverance will land inside Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

NASA rover Perseverance survives death-defying plunge, lands safely on Mars

By Rafi Letzter

NASA's rhinoceros-size Perseverance rover pulled off the most precise landing in Martian history Thursday (Feb. 18), touching down successfully in Jezero crater.