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February 18, 2021 Researchers at the SETI Institute say that mysterious dark streaks on sun-facing slopes on Mars, debated about for years, may be small landslides caused by a combination of salts and melting ice just below the surface. A sample of Mars analog crust (imitation Martian soil) containing sulfate salts (blue and pink). The new study suggests that such salts and melting ice just below the surface on Mars could cause the enigmatic dark streaks on sun-facing slopes. Image via Janice B...

Beijing shared footage of China's Tianwen-1 probe orbiting Mars after the spacecraft successfully entered the red planet's orbit seven months following its launch.