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Mars is often described as a frozen desert, but its climate is more complex than simply being cold. Temperatures vary dramatically depending on the season, the time of day, and the location. Here’s ...

"You could pull up Google Earth images of places like Utah, zoom out, and you’d see the similarities to Mars." Though Mars, the Red Planet, is a vast and inhospitable land today, scientists think it ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...

Scientists may have figured out how Mars hung onto its surface liquid water in its ancient history via alternating periods of hot and cold. But what would the impact have been on habitability?