9 hours ago · This is the fourth Mars year the rover has observed the phenomenon, which occurs during early fall in the southern hemisphere. Mark Lemmon, an atmospheric scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, led a paper summarizing Curiosity’s first two seasons of twilight cloud observations, which published late last year in ...

Mars has an axial tilt of 25.19°, quite close to the value of 23.44° for Earth, and thus Mars has seasons of spring, summer, autumn, winter as Earth does. As on Earth, the southern and northern hemispheres have summer and winter at opposing times.

Feb 1, 2025 · Mars is visible all night, climbing above 60° altitude by 9 p.m. local time. Mars continues along its retrograde path into central Gemini until late February. On the 24th, it reverses course and ...

Feb 5, 2025 · Mars is one of the most explored bodies in our solar system, and it’s the only planet where we’ve sent rovers to explore the alien landscape. NASA missions have found lots of evidence that Mars was much wetter and warmer, with a thicker atmosphere, billions of years ago.

Jan 13, 2025 · Mars will also appear larger than at any other time this year. Astronomers use angles to measure the span of celestial objects. At opposition, the Red Planet’s diameter will be 14.6 arcseconds ...

Jan 10, 2025 · This week, Mars will shine brighter than at any time since December 2022 as it reaches a point astronomers call "opposition." That means skywatchers will have the best views of the Red Planet —...

Jan 13, 2025 · Every 26 months, the orbits of Earth and Mars allow us a closer look when Mars is at opposition — which will happen on Jan. 15, 2025.

Nov 20, 2024 · Mars is one of the most explored bodies in our solar system, and it’s the only planet where we’ve sent rovers to roam the alien landscape. NASA missions have found lots of evidence that Mars was much wetter and warmer, with a thicker atmosphere, billions of years ago.

Feb 3, 2025 · Researchers have in the past taken images of new impact craters and found seismic data that matches the date and location of the craters’ formation. But the two new studies represent the first time a fresh impact has been correlated with shaking detected in Cerberus Fossae, an especially quake-prone region of Mars that is …

Feb 3, 2025 · Mars is the fourth planet in the solar system in order of distance from the Sun and the seventh in size and mass. It is a periodically conspicuous reddish object in the night sky. There are intriguing clues that billions of years ago Mars was even more Earth-like than today.