Payré and her team used data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to study the composition of the Martian crust in the southern hemisphere, where they discovered the mineral feldspar. Feldspar ...

A new study finds the original crust on Mars is more complex, and evolved, than previously thought. Researchers have determined the Martian crust has greater concentrations of the chemical element ...

The Mars water debate continues. A team of scientists suggests vast oceans of water may not be locked within the Red Planet's crust, despite InSight lander data.

If portions of the primordial Mars remained solid after such a collision however, remaining as islands within the magma ocean, that could explain the areas where the crust is more silicon than ...

If Mars’ crust is similar across the planet, there may be more water within the mid-crust zone than the “volumes proposed to have filled hypothesized ancient Martian oceans,” the authors ...

A new study finds the original crust on Mars is more complex, and evolved, than previously thought. Researchers led by Valerie Payré determined the Martian crust has greater concentrations of the ...

In a recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a team of researchers led by the University of Iowa discussed how the crust of Mars is far more diversified than previously hypothesized.

But if dynamics of the crust are similar all over Mars, there ought to be more than enough water in this mid-crust reservoir to fill the Red Planet’s ancient oceans, the authors argue.

If Mars’ crust is similar across the planet, there may be more water within the mid-crust zone than the “volumes proposed to have filled hypothesized ancient Martian oceans,” the authors ...

If Mars’ crust is similar across the planet, there may be more water within the mid-crust zone than the “volumes proposed to have filled hypothesized ancient Martian oceans,” the authors ...