Satellite images of the Red Planet suggest scientists were wrong about these strange Martian features.

These mysterious dark ‘streaks’ on Mars aren’t what scientists initially believed - Hundreds of meters long, the marks on the ...

A set of dark streaks that regularly wind across the Martian surface are more likely to be formed by dust and wind than by ...

Slope streaks once believed to be signs of water on Mars might really be signs of rockfall and high winds, a new study says.

There’s long been conspiracy theories about the dark markings found the planet’s surface, with scientists having their own ...

The streaks are called slope streaks and recurrent slope lineae (RSL), and they would suggest that there is water activity on Mars. Now it seems more plausible that they were formed by thin layers of ...

A new study posits that dark streaks originally believed to be signs of water on Mars' surface might not be that at all.

For years, researchers have pictured strange dark streaks running across the dusty Martian surface, with some thinking that ...

The CaSSIS camera aboard the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captures dark finger-like slope streaks extending across Mars's dusty surface. | Credit: NASA First identified in the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Martian "slope streaks" spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2017. Scientists ...

Mysterious dark streaks first observed on Mars in the 1970s are not what many ... known as recurring slope lineae or RSLs, are not generally associated with factors that suggest a liquid or ...