By discovering carbonate rocks, NASA's Mars rovers may have unlocked the key to understanding the fate of the Red Planet's ...

Mars has long captured humanity’s imagination, especially given the tantalizing evidence of ancient river valleys and ...

A warm afternoon on ancient Mars lasted about as long as a Silicon Valley internship. That is the sobering conclusion of a ...

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

Greenhouses for the moon and Mars Team project would get key plants started ahead of explorers' arrival. By Dan Sorenson arizona daily star Jan 7, 2007 Jan 7, 2007; 1 of 5 ...

On Mars, however, cyanobacteria can ... Greenhouse technologies. Once bacteria are happily growing away under a Martian sky, they will provide nutrients needed to support luxurious crops of plants.

A Martian greenhouse. In order for future humans to survive on Mars for long stretches at a time, ... Experimental set up in a greenhouse (left). Pots with Mars, sand, and Earth soil (right).

"On a warmed Mars, atmospheric pressure will further increase by a factor of 2 to 20 as adsorbed CO2 desorbs, and polar CO2 ice is volatilized on a time scale that could be as long as centuries.

At a release of 2 liters per second (0.5 gallons/second), the team calculates that Mars' greenhouse effect would double, raising its temperature by +5 Kelvin (5°C; 9°F).

What is the amount of greenhouse warming required to heat up the cold climes of Mars enough so that trees can grow on the Red Planet? New research points to how much you’ve got to jack up the carbon ...