NASA's Perseverance collects the “Silver Mountain” sample in Jezero, revealing geological secrets and possible traces of ...

Scientists may have finally cracked a 50-year-old mystery surrounding the so-called "Martian dichotomy"—the sharp contrast between the southern highlands and northern lowlands of Mars.

Scientists appear to have unravelled the mystery of Mars' "Martian dichotomy" - a contrast ... The northern lowlands have a younger, smoother face with no evidence of past magnetisation, and ...

Perseverance landed on Mars in 2021 near Jezero Crater with several objectives in mind: scour the area for possible signs of ancient life, collect rock samples like "Silver Mountain" for an ...

Dubbed “Silver Mountain,” it has been sealed for further analysis in labs on Earth, holding secrets of Mars’ geological past. The rover collected its 26th sample after climbing the western ...

The Martian dichotomy came to light in the 1970s following the Viking Probe's transmission of remarkably detailed Martian images back to Earth.