New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...

By discovering carbonate rocks, NASA's Mars rovers may have unlocked the key to understanding the fate of the Red Planet's ...

Greenhouses for the moon and Mars Team project would get key plants started ahead of explorers' arrival. By Dan Sorenson arizona daily star Jan 7, 2007 Jan 7, 2007; 1 of 5 ...

Mars has long captured humanity’s imagination, especially given the tantalizing evidence of ancient river valleys and ...

Researchers have successfully grown green algae in a specialized bioplastic “shelter” designed to mimic Mars. The Harvard ...

A Martian greenhouse. In order for future humans to survive on Mars for long stretches at a time, ... Experimental set up in a greenhouse (left). Pots with Mars, sand, and Earth soil (right).

On Mars, however, cyanobacteria can ... Greenhouse technologies. Once bacteria are happily growing away under a Martian sky, they will provide nutrients needed to support luxurious crops of plants.

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

At a release of 2 liters per second (0.5 gallons/second), the team calculates that Mars' greenhouse effect would double, raising its temperature by +5 Kelvin (5°C; 9°F).

"On a warmed Mars, atmospheric pressure will further increase by a factor of 2 to 20 as adsorbed CO2 desorbs, and polar CO2 ice is volatilized on a time scale that could be as long as centuries.

What is the amount of greenhouse warming required to heat up the cold climes of Mars enough so that trees can grow on the Red Planet? New research points to how much you’ve got to jack up the carbon ...