Perchlorate compounds are known for their explosive nature. To understand what makes these compounds so explosive, a team of researchers developed a novel deep learning-based method that analyses ...

Perchlorate salt at the Martian poles may lower the freezing point of water to create pockets of water ice that could offer extremophile microorganisms both a habitat and a source of energy. Or so ...

Phoenix Mars mission scientists spoke today on research in progress concerning an ongoing investigation of perchlorate salts detected in soil analyzed by the wet chemistry laboratory aboard NASA’s ...

WASHINGTON, DC—The quest for evidence of life on Mars could be more difficult than scientists previously thought. A scientific paper published today details the investigation of a chemical in the ...

Perchlorate is a chemical that’s used in things like rocket fuel, explosives, road flares, and fireworks. Small amounts of it can also form naturally in dry states in the Southwest. It has no color or ...

It’ll take a lot of work in order to grow rice on Mars. First, and most importantly, we need a mission to successfully get to Mars and set up camp, something NASA is hoping to do in the late 2030s or ...

The proposed novel method uses deep learning to study the physical properties of compounds such as explosive perchlorates by using only their crystal structure and thus avoiding dangerous experiments.