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This MOC image shows an unconformity in an exposure of north polar layered material, at which older layers were...
This MOC image shows an unconformity in an exposure of north polar layered material, at which older layers were...
The North Polar layered deposits NPLD are a stack of layers of ice and dust at the North Pole of Mars. The layers...
Evidence for Recent Liquid Water on Mars:Weeping Layer in Gorgonum Chaos
This highest-resolution image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveals new details of Pluto's rugged, icy...
Understanding both the spatial and temporal distribution of hydrated (water-bearing) minerals on Mars is essential...
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Professor Russ Westphal works on the Boundary Layer Data System (BLDS) attached to the wing...
These impact craters in the northern middle latitudes have interesting interiors: all of them have wind-blown...
Today's false color image shows the margin between the north polar cap and the surrounding plains. The polar cap was...
Aram Chaos contains several layers of fill material
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured evidence of rock layers that built up as windblown sand accumulated in some...
Layer upon layer of volcanic flows make up Daedalia Planum as shown in this image from NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey...
This MOC image shows layered material exposed on a slope in the north polar region. An unconformity is visible in...
The Global Precipitation Measurement can help improve numerical weather predictions of snowfall by measuring the...
Every spring the sun shines on the side of the stack of layers at the North Pole of Mars known as the north polar...
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is of Saheki Crater, about 84 kilometers across, and located in...
Ice-rich mantling deposits accumulate from the atmosphere in the Martian mid-latitudes in cycles during periods of...
Gullies are commonly found in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars. In this image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance...
This view of "Vera Rubin Ridge" from the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover...
In this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Rover (MRO) we can see the edge of a mound of ice in one of these...
This hill in the South Polar layered deposits has influenced the erosion of the icy layers as seen by by NASA Mars...
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo professors Russ Westphal, left, and Aaron Drake posed next to NASA Armstrong Flight...
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Professor Russ Westphal, left, and NASA Armstrong’s Technology Transfer Officer Benjamin...
This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a close view of the rim and upper wall of an impact...