The USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona recently released a series of geologic Martian maps that could all be impactful to future missions to the Red Planet. Does size matter? In ...
One of the challenges of sending human explorers to Mars is that, due to the logistics of the journey, they will have to be on the planet’s surface for considerably longer than the missions of a few ...
(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 ...