NASA's Perseverance Rover has released its first full-color look at Mars a day after its successful landing -- and scientists are fascinated by the rocks it captured on the Red Planet.

That alignment of Sun-Earth-Mars means that from Earth we see a very bright red planet 100% lit by the Sun. That moment is called opposition and it will occur on December 8, 2022.

The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

On Monday evening (Jan. 13), the Full Wolf Moon passed in front of Mars in what's known as a lunar occultation, during which another celestial object appears to disappear behind the moon from our ...

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After a seven-month, 300-million-mile journey to the Red Planet, NASA's Perseverance rover has sent back the first high-definition color pictures of Mars, including a selfie. On Friday, NASA ...

The images included a shot of the orbiter flying around the red planet, a snap of Mars' northern ice caps, and the first full photo of the orbiter. An image shows China's Tianwen 1 spacecraft ...

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Photos of space can make people's imaginations run wild. Sometimes, they are used to spread false claims and misinformation. Mars has been at the center of some such claims over the years. On ...

The Full Wolf Moon and Mars on Jan. 13, 2025. (Image credit: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images) Lisa Shislowski of Plantation, Florida sent us the image of the occultation below.

Mars next to the full moon on Jan. 13, 2025. | Credit: Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images ...