Research suggests that an ancient shoreline helped to sculpt the drop between Mars' southern and northern hemispheres.

The next Mars rovers may traverse the Red Planet with futuristic tires. NASA 's Glenn Research Center released imagery and ...

R emote-sensing images of Mars contain rich information about its surface morphology, topography, and geological structure.

Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the solar system: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled scientists since it was discovered in the 1970s. The southern highlands of Mars ...

Weijia Sun from the Chinese Academy of Sciences said that the difference in topography between the southern and northern regions of Mars is equivalent to the height of the highest mountain ranges on ...

Dividing the two hemispheres is the meandering dichotomy, which drops Mars' topography by anywhere between 4,000 and 6,000 meters (13,123 and 19,685 feet). For a while, some scientists have ...