Scientists Make a Big Breakthrough on How Mars Got Its Red Color, Findings Indicate It Had Life-Forming Elements Mars's red ...

The Red Planet, as it’s often called, has a distinct hue, and a new theory about this coloration could have implications for our understanding of Mars' evolution.

European space researchers have discovered a bizarre phenomenon on Mars: thousands of dark formations resembling giant ...

Mars’s red dust may contain ferrihydrite, an iron mineral that forms in water. This suggests ancient Mars had water for ...

Mars’s signature red hue may not be due to hematite, as previously believed, but rather to ferrihydrite — an iron oxide that requires water to form. Using a combination of spacecraft data and ...

Ferrihydrite, a water-rich iron mineral, plays an important role in giving the red planet its signature hue, according to the ...

Qi Zhang, a doctoral student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University, explores in her doctoral thesis ...

Kaolinite is a soft, earthy, usually white, mineral produced by the chemical weathering of aluminium silicate minerals like ...

A new study shows a water-rich mineral could explain the planet's color -- and hint at its wetter, more habitable past.

The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) is Germany's most important contribution to the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express mission. The main objective of this mission, which reached Mars in ...