Communications with Mars explorers face unique challenges, including 4–24 minute signal delays and limited bandwidth that restricts data transmission. While NASA's Deep Space Network currently manages ...

Four papers in the journal Science this week offer new details about the history of water on Mars, gleaned from the 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars Mission that was operated from The University of Arizona.

The researchers found that, in most cases, the dust devils were being blown across the landscape faster than our current Mars weather models predicted. In places where wind speeds are higher than ...