• the Tagish Lake meteorite that impacted Canada on January 18, 2000 may be a broken off piece of the 773 Irmintraud asteroid that orbits between the planets Mars and Jupiter?
• the Tooting impact crater on Mars was named after the London suburb of the same name because the discoverer "thought [his] mum and brother would get a kick out of having their home town paired with a land form on Mars"?
• the only known source of the mineral Macaulayite in the world is in a quarry at the foot of Bennachie, Aberdeenshire – but it may also be present on Mars?
• troilite, a form of pyrrhotite, is extremely rare on Earth but is abundant on Mars (pictured)?
• a fossilized delta in Eberswalde crater provides strong evidence for flowing water on Mars?
• Yogi Rock is a rock found on Mars by the Mars Pathfinder mission that looks surprisingly like Yogi Bear's head?
• Mars' south polar ice cap may be melting due to regional climate change?
• NASA conducts field trials, called Desert RATS, for new technologies for manned exploration of the surface of the Moon, Mars, or beyond?
• CRISM is a spectrometer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and will be used to find minerals on the surface of Mars?
• ejecta from the impact that created Zunil crater in Athabasca Valles on Mars is a possible source of Martian meteorites?

Facts on topics related to Mars

Life on Mars

• researchers are studying the waters of Soap Lake in Washington with the hope of learning about life on Mars?

Atmosphere of Mars

• Hyron Spinrad discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of Mars, and was the first astronomer to identify a galaxy with a redshift greater than one?

2007 WD5

• the Near-Earth object and Mars-crosser asteroid 2007 WD5 is estimated to have a 1-in-75 chance of colliding with Mars?