NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has reached its next destination — a valley called Perseverance, where the long-lived robot will scour the surface for clues about how the vast crevice formed.

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has reached its next destination — a valley called Perseverance, where the long-lived robot will scour the surface for clues about how the vast crevice formed.

SANTA CRUZ, CA–A new study suggests that ancient features on the surface of Mars called valley networks were carved by recurrent floods during a long period when the martian climate may have been much ...

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Tenaya Canyon and part of Yosemite Valley as seen from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. Tenaya Creek likely started to scour this granite canyon below Half Dome about 5 to 10 million years ago ...

Earth's valleys tell an ancient story of ice and power. Over millions of years, massive glaciers have carved, sculpted, and transformed the landscape in ways that still take researchers' breath away.

Visit Mars as it might have looked billions of years ago. Not frozen and dry, but wet, warm, and alive with flowing water. Across vast highlands near the Martian equator, deep river-like valleys snake ...

Historic rainstorms that lashed California recently have kept a rare phenomenon around — a lake at famed hot spot Death Valley. The lake formed at Badwater Basin in August, on what normally is a salt ...

A newly discovered giant valley on the planet Mercury makes the Grand Canyon look tiny by comparison. The expansive valley holds an important key to the geologic history of the innermost planet in our ...

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A climate similar to that of Earth’s deserts, with intermittent floods and long dry spells, reproduces the valley networks (image C, above). Another scenario, with intense deluges over a short period ...