This story appears in the November 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In winter the temperature at the poles of Mars can reach 200° below zero Fahrenheit. But make no mistake ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Carl Sagan spent his childhood immersed in Mars. The future scientist, an avid reader of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s ...

This story appears in the November 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If there’s ever been life on Mars, she could be the one to find it. To discover the earliest signs of life on Earth ...

Mars has been born afresh in the human mind with each exploratory thrust. Now it was happening again under the astonished gaze of Ken Edgett as he sat at his computer, tucked away in a leafy ...

2 min read This story appears in the December 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Emily Briere is planning a mission to Mars. The 23-year-old aerospace engineering student aims to get a ...

So too each rover uses its three-jointed arm to wield equipment including a camera and a tool for grinding into Mars rocks. Rock-breaking brings up the essential reason to muse over these robots ...