Lauren Mc Keown of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California said, “I love DUSTIE. It’s historic; the wine barrel-size chamber was used to test a prototype of a rasping tool designed for NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander. The tool was used to break water ice, which the spacecraft scooped up and analyzed near the planet’s north pole.”

Nasa scientists have recreated Martian 'spiders' in laboratory conditions for the first time, simulating Mars' extreme temperatures and air pressure. Known as araneiform terrain, these formations were first observed in 2003.

NASA scientists have recreated mysterious Martian "spiders" in a lab, replicating the formations first observed by the Mars Orbiter. These dark, crack-like structures, explained by carbon dioxide sublimation,