Mount Etna, an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, erupted on Monday (June 2), sending columns of volcanic stream and ...

Satellite images show Mount Etna erupting. At 11:24 am local time on 2 June, the most active volcano in Europe produced a spectacular eruption, propelling a dense column of ash and smoke several ...

The Deuteronilus Cavus crater has been shaped by water, wind, ice and volcanic erosion over billions of years, showcasing ...

On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera (Pancam) mosaic was taken around 6: ...

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This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Planets hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated how the size of impact crater ejecta could ...

To add some ground truth to the simulation results, the team looked at two fresh impact craters on Mars. Because the craters are fresh, their ejecta blankets haven't been eroded much, making it ...

In addition to the simulation, the researchers analyzed two fresh impact craters on Mars, which, based on other data, they knew were located over solid bedrock and some subsurface ice, officials said.

The smaller of Mars' two moons shines in the sky before ... Another feature, "Woodstock Crater," at center right, is roughly a half-mile (750 meters) away from the rover. This vista is the product ...

Mars, the other world, followed a different path. Today the Martian surface is hostile to life as we know it, but as this scientific story goes, Mars may have once hosted a rich abundance of microbes.

NASA/JPL “It’s one of the reasons we’re excited about Jezero crater,” says Purdue University planetary scientist Briony Horgan. It’s also why Garczynski is practicing being a Mars rover ...