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Strong nickel enrichment co-located with redox-organic interactions in Neretva Vallis, Mars: #Mars coughs up another maybe-life clue in the form of nickel compounds: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/nickel_found_on_mars/ - Perseverance found the minerals in an ancient river channel, but researchers say geology may still beat biology.

The Constraint of Crewed Mars Missions Based on Current Radiation Dose Measurements: #Mars: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/The_radiation_paradox_why_solar_maximum_is_the_safest_time_to_travel_to_Mars

Investigating potential Martian habitats - survival of the halotolerant yeast Debaryomyces hansenii in deliquescence-driven brines: #Mars: https://www.tu.berlin/news/pressemitteilung/neue-hinweise-auf-lebensfreundliche-nischen-auf-dem-mars

🥕 Why Mars astronauts need more than just space greenhouses
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Why Mars astronauts need more than just space greenhouses
Thinking about food systems in deep space likely brings to mind something like The Martian where an astronaut is scratching barely enough food to survive out of potatoes grown in Martian regolith. Or perhaps a fancy hydroponic system on an interplanetary transport ship, with artificial lighting and all the associated technological wizardry. But a new paper published in Acta Astronautica by Tor Blomqvist and Ralph Fritsche points out that growing food is only one small part of the whole cycle of…

ESA's Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Planet - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/articles/esas-mars-orbiters-watch-solar-superstorm-hit-the-red-planet

ESA's Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Planet
What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency’s Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching spacecraft and a supercharged upper atmosphere.

Using asteroid early orbital data for rapid mars missions: #Mars: https://t3n.de/news/abkuerzung-mars-route-mission-1740314/ - neue Route könnte Gesamtmission auf 153 Tage eindampfen.

Almost like the real thing: Three years before ESA's #ExoMars rover #RosalindFranklin is scheduled to land on #Mars,

NASA just released some of the pictures taken by the astronauts yesterday and Oh My Word. So many new wallpapers!! :D
#NASA #ArtemisII #pictures #amazing #eclipse #earth #moon #Mars

Even though our knowledge has greatly advanced over the decades, I must say the #planetary literature was much more exciting during the Mariner program
#Mars
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Diverse organic molecules on #Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70656-0 -> NASA’s Curiosity Finds Organic Molecules Never Seen Before on Mars: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-finds-organic-molecules-never-seen-before-on-mars/

Elon #Musk Won't Get Us to #mars
#ElonMusk won’t get you to Mars and none of the #ai companies are work…

Elon Musk Won't Get Us to Mars
or: on space travel and AI and federations

A funny incident just happened on #Mars - the drill of the rover Curiosity got stuck in a rock which was then lifted up and moved around a bit before it fell off on its own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztB7lgMxr_g

Even though our knowledge has greatly advanced over the decades, I must say the #planetary literature was much more exciting during the Mariner program
#Mars
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#Extremophile survives the transient pressures associated with impact-induced ejection from #Mars: #panspermia

Amapari Marker Band Metal-Enrichments - Potential Mechanisms and Implications for Surface and Subsurface Water and Weathering in Gale Crater: #Mars: https://www.lanl.gov/media/news/0421-ancient-lakes-on-mars

Ground penetrating radar observations of ancient large-scale deltaic structures in Jezero crater, #Mars: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz6095 -> Perseverance’s radar revealed ancient subsurface river delta on Mars: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/perseverances-radar-revealed-ancient-subsurface-river-delta-on-mars/ - there may be a river delta hidden under the obvious delta in a Martian crater.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Mars Smith, Daniela Mars & Paul Smith:
🎵 Sea in Minor
#MarsSmith #DanielaMars #PaulSmith
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Identifying the topographic signature of early Martian oceans: #Mars: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/bathtub-ring-is-new-evidence-for-an-ancient-ocean-on-mars

Magnetic Reconnection as a Potential Trigger for #Magnetotail Flapping at #Mars - Insights From #MAVEN and Tianwen-1 Observations: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026AV002343 -> What Makes Mars’s Magnetotail Flap?
Spacecraft reveal a key driver of up-and-down motions of thin, current-carrying plasma sheets on the nightside of Mars: https://eos.org/research-spotlights/what-makes-marss-magnetotail-flap

Simultaneous Double Transits of #Phobos and #Deimos as Seen from the Martian Surface - A Millennium Catalogue: #Mars

Spectral evidence for magmatic differentiation within a martian plumbing system: #Mars’ “Young” Volcanoes Were More Complex Than Scientists Once Thought: https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/2026/GSA News Release 26-08.aspx