The model Kite’s team built was unique in that it captured evolution of the Martian landscape and climate over an extremely ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

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 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.

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).

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 ...