... NASAт??s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the martiansurface. ...
... But the debate is likely to continue well into the future, perhaps even when scientists can finally walk the martiansurface with instruments in hand, with a network of smarter spaceborne, airborne, and ground-based robotic systems in their midst." ...
... Although MOC has observed only about 4 percent of the martiansurface, Malin notes the number of fresh craters is lower than planetary scientists anticipated. ...
... Now in an extended mission, the orbiter continues to provide insights about the planet's ancient environments and about how processes such as wind, meteorite impacts, and seasonal frosts are continuing to affect the martiansurface today. ...
... Liquid water has not been found on the Martiansurface within the last decade after all, according to new research. ... streaks that formed in two Martian gullies since 1999 "suggest that liquid water flowed on the surface of Mars during the past ...
... ExoMars will deploy a high-mobility rover on the martiansurface to establish if life ever existed or is now present on Mars. Return to the Moon? ...