Evidence of water accelerating erosion might help with the search for life. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now we can factor ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

Most of Mars’ ancient sedimentary rocks by volume are in wind-eroded sedimentary mounds, but the connections between mound form and wind erosion are unclear. We perform mesoscale simulations of ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Sand ...

Very interesting article and paper. Plateau retreat, deposition, and and shorelines tend toward a large body of water as an explanation except that rock layers and shorelines also say "no" to that as ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - New research has led scientists to believe that Mars was very likely a "planet of rivers" and once able to host life. This comes from Benjamin Cardenas of Penn State University who ...

Mars Express has uncovered geological evidence suggesting that some depositional process, revealed by erosion, has been at work on large scales in the equatorial regions of the planet. If so, this ...

For decades, we have been imaging the surface of Mars with ever-finer resolution, cataloging a huge range of features on its surface, studying their composition, and, in a few cases, dispatching ...

Spiral troughs found on the surface of Mars are in situ ice-excavated canyons with a total volume 10 times that of the Grand Canyon, making them one of the largest and youngest geologic ...

In this observation, it looks like we can view a couple of erosional windows in the scalloped (ice-rich) unit. This area is a good place for imaging samples of the contact to understand the deposition ...

Thanks to erosion wearing away surface rock on Mars, scientists using NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have spotted thick deposits of ice in the planet’s mid-latitudes that extend hundreds of feet ...

Glimmering Martian sand dunes NASA/JPL/UArizona. Since 2006, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been carrying the HiRise to capture minute glances of Mars. This time, the camera snapped some ...