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 ...

A new map of Mars has revealed mysterious structures ... still host active geological processes that could be feeding Olympus ...

Mars Express captures images of Acheron Fossae, revealing the Red Planet’s split terrain—ancient cratered highlands and ...

Related: 15 Martian objects that aren't what they seem The new map also confirmed the presence of a massive 1,100-mile-wide (1,750 kilometers) blob under Olympus Mons, a dormant volcano near Mars ...

The map accounts for radiation levels ... However, it looks like we should probably steer clear of Mars’ inactive volcanoes like Olympus Mons and Elysium Mons. But how does Wamelink know ...

Nearly 25 years after its launch, NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter is still going strong. In a post on Monday, the agency celebrated 24 years of the Orbiter's launch that kickstarted one of the most ...

Like Earth and Venus, Mars has mountains, valleys, and volcanoes, but the red planet’s are by far the biggest and most dramatic. Olympus Mons, the solar system’s largest volcano, towers some ...

As on Earth, where average atmospheric pressure clocks in at around 101.3 kilopascals (kPa), areas of Mars experience differing levels of atmospheric pressure. The peak of Olympus Mons (the ...

Olympus Mons And no trip to Mars would be complete without a visit to Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system. It covers a region the size of Arizona. It's three times as tall as ...