Located in the western hemisphere of Mars, between the Tharsis and Amazonis Planitia ... the region is known for being the landing site of NASA’s Viking 2 lander in 1976, which did some of ...

The most significant change since those 1970's experiments were conducted was the discovery of high levels of perchlorate on Mars. Perchlorate, plus abiotic oxidants, explains the Viking results ...

After the Viking spacecraft photographed Mars in the 1970s ... In 2017, he revisited the study and suggested that Tharsis altered Mars' rotation 4 billion years ago. "Because the spin axis of Mars has ...

I work on MAVEN's IUVS instrument in order to understand topographic clouds over Mars' Tharsis region. I'm working to retrieve cloud morphologies from our data and compare our observations to global ...

Fast forward to today, a new paper tackles and reconsiders the results of the Viking Biology experiments. "The discovery of perchlorate on Mars by the Phoenix mission has provided a basis for ...