Establishing the first human presence on Mars will be the most technically challenging
undertaking yet in the exploration beyond our planet. The remoteness of Mars from Earth …

Multiple nations and private entities are pushing to make landing humans on Mars a reality.
The majority of proposed mission architectures envision 'living off the land'by leveraging …

The Wet Chemistry Laboratory on the Phoenix Mars Lander performed aqueous chemical
analyses of martian soil from the polygon-patterned northern plains of the Vastitas Borealis …

A committee of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) has reviewed and
updated the description of Special Regions on Mars as places where terrestrial organisms …

Mars accumulated and differentiated into crust, mantle and core within a few tens of millions
of years of Solar System formation. Formation of Hellas, which has been adopted as the …

We measured maps of atmospheric water (H2O) and its deuterated form (HDO) across the
martian globe, showing strong isotopic anomalies and a significant high …

A key pacemaker of ice ages on the Earth is climatic forcing due to variations in planetary
orbital parameters. Recent Mars exploration has revealed dusty, water-ice-rich mantling …

The controlled production of single photons is of fundamental and practical interest; they
represent the lowest excited quantum states of the radiation field, and have applications in …

The surface elemental composition of dwarf planet Ceres constrains its regolith ice content,
aqueous alteration processes, and interior evolution. Using nuclear spectroscopy data …

The selection of the Discovery Program InSight landing site took over four years from initial
identification of possible areas that met engineering constraints, to downselection via …