Latest Hesperia Planum Stories

One of the supposedly best understood and least interesting landscapes on Mars is hiding something that could rewrite the planet’s history. Or not. In fact, about all that is certain is that decades of assumptions regarding the wide, flat Hesperia Planum are not holding up very well under renewed scrutiny with higher-resolution, more recent spacecraft data. "Most scientists don't want to work on the flat things," noted geologist Tracy Gregg of The University at Buffalo, State University...