NASA has released an image of Earth and Moon as seen from an artificial device rotating around Mars. The picture was made available on the agency’s website. Australia and the surrounding oceans are particularly visible in the image. The Moon as compared with the originally obtained images has been artificially made brighter. The scale of distances between the celestial bodies and their relative... 

High-resolution photos taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show lava coils on the Martian surface in a region of valleys near the Red Planet’s equator. The recently found patterns were first discovered by graduate student Andrew Ryan of Arizona State University who studied possible interactions of lava flows and floods of water in the Elysium volcanic province of Mars. “I was interested... 

A sequence of new photographs released by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show evidence of flowing, liquid water on the mountains of the Red Planet. According to the report published in the journal Science, the images show long, dark “tendrils” a few meters wide, the BBC reported. The flowing water can be seen between rocky outcrops flowing hundreds of meters down steep slopes towards...