The new image, which shows Earth along with an even smaller point of light coming from the moon, harkens back to Carl Sagan's ...

ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, which has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2003, zoomed in on two trenches that form part of western Valles Marineris: Ius Chasma and Tithonium Chasma. The images ...

The gash across the disk is Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system. It extends more than 1,860 miles (3,000 kilometers) long and perhaps 5 miles (8 kilometers) deep.

Earth and Mars were formed from inner Solar System material International research team investigated the isotopic composition of rocky planets in the inner Solar System Date: December 22, 2021 ...

With a radius of 2,106 miles, Mars is the seventh largest planet in our solar system and about half the diameter of Earth. Its surface gravity is 37.5 percent of Earth’s.

I, for one, very much hope that we can continue to explore our solar system, Mars and beyond, at the same – or even faster – rate.