Ancient Mars microbes may have made their planet unlivable through climate change
Ancient microbes triggered a climate change on Mars that made the planet less habitable, which may have led to their extinction, a new study suggests.
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Ancient microbes triggered a climate change on Mars that made the planet less habitable, which may have led to their extinction, a new study suggests.
A team of international researchers analysed the interaction between the early environment on Mars and an ecosystem of microorganisms called methanogenic hydrogenotrophs.
The James Webb Space Telescope's main goal is to detect faint light from distant galaxies, but it recently observed one of the brightest objects in the night sky: Mars.
The James Webb Space Telescope has made incredible headway, peering farther across space and time than any telescope that came before.
The new images depict Mars' eastern hemisphere in different wavelengths of infrared light.