Articles for tag: Mars Core, Martian Geology, planetary science, Solar System, Space Discoveries

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What Lies at Mars Heart? A Stinky Surprise of Rotten Eggs

Suhail Ahmed

Mars’s rust-colored desserts, towering volcanoes, and tantalizing prospect of ancient life have enthralled people for millennia. Benevolent on its surface, though, lurks a far stranger secret rife with rotten eggs. Recent discoveries in science imply that the Martian core is not only an iron and nickel molten ball like that of Earth. Rather, it might ...

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Mars Once Had Rain and Snow? New Clues Rewrite the Red Planet’s History

Jan Otte

Today Mars is a frozen desert devoid of flowing water and with a rusty surface scuffed by dust storms. But billions of years ago, the Red Planet might have been a planet of rushing rivers, glittering lakes, even rain or snow falling from alien heavens. Suggesting Mars was far wetter and maybe warmer than previously ...