[NASA] These sulfur crystals were found inside a rock after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush it on May 30, 2024, the 4,200th Martian day, […]
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Mars Curiosity Blog, Sols 4852–4858: When Data Take Their Time…
Earth planning date: Friday, April 3, 2026 Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK
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Curiosity Mars Rover Starts A Study Of Boxwork Region Formations
Curiosity recently drilled a sample from a new region with features that could reveal whether Mars’ subsurface once provided an environment suitable for life.
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Mars Droid Evolution (Video)
Since landing its first rover on Mars in 1997, NASA has pushed the boundaries of exploration with increasingly larger and more sophisticated robotic explorers.
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Curiosity Astrobiology Rover Discovers Pure Sulfur Crystals On Mars
Among several recent findings, the Mars Curiosity rover has found rocks made of pure sulfur — a first on the Red Planet.
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Curiosity Rover Finds Surprising Clues to Mars’ Watery Past
Among other discoveries made by the rover, rippled rock textures suggest lakes existed in a region of ancient Mars that scientists expected to be drier.
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Mars Curiosity Rover Discovers Water-rich Fracture Halo’s in Gale Crater
A research team using new methods to analyze data from NASA’s Curiosity rover and its neutron spectrometer Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, or DAN, on Mars was able to independently verify […]
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No Oxygen Was Required To Make Manganese Oxides Found On Mars
When NASA’s Mars rovers found manganese oxides in rocks in the Gale and Endeavor craters on Mars in 2014, the discovery sparked some scientists to suggest that the red planet […]
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Curiosity Rover Reaches Long-Awaited Salty Region On Mars
The rover has arrived at a special region believed to have formed as Mars’ climate was drying.
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A Primordial Atmospheric Origin Of Hydrospheric Deuterium Enrichment On Mars
The deuterium-to-hydrogen (D/H or 2H/1H) ratio of Martian atmospheric water (~6x standard mean ocean water, SMOW) is higher than that of known sources, requiring planetary enrichment.