Mars' distinctive red color comes from the mineral ferrihydrite, which only forms in the presence of cool water, a new study claims. Ferrihydrite also forms at a lower temperature than other ...

Mars, often called the Red Planet due to its distinctive rusty color from iron oxide on its surface, is Earth’s neighboring ...

Underneath Mars’ dusty façade, rocks like Kenmore hold chemical time capsules that can reveal ancient planetary processes—if ...

We’ve always known Mars as the Red Planet — but it turns out, we may have had the reason why wrong. If so, it could revise much of what we know about the history of our smaller neighbor planet.

This study builds upon past research that concluded the mineral hematite was responsible for Mars’ red color, which is a mineral that forms in water-free environments. However, the researchers for ...

We might be wrong about the color of Mars, scientists say. Red dust has blown around the planet for billions of years, leading to its iconic hue. Julia Musto. in New York.

A true color Mars global image map in Robinson projection is created with Tianwen-1 MoRIC image data, the resolution of the original data is ~76 m per pixel, and the horizontal accuracy is 68 m.

The Perseverance rover came across an odd stone on Mars, the likes of which NASA said has never been seen, that people are calling the 'zebra rock.' ...

Scientists might have been wrong about perhaps the most obvious thing about Mars: the red colour behind its nickname Earthlings have known about the existence of Mars, the fourth planet from the sun ...

Scientists might have been wrong about perhaps the most obvious thing about Mars: the red colour behind its nickname Earthlings have known about the existence of Mars, the fourth planet from the sun ...