NASA's Mars rovers had a gangbusters summer of rocks
Three major findings happened within the span of seven weeks. The Curiosity rover, which has been climbing a mountain of layered rock, literally stumbled upon pure sulfur, its wheels crushing the material to expose a bed of yellow crystals. It turns out there was a whole beach-like field of these rocks about 55 yards wide.
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Curiosity Rover Discovers Pure Sulfur Crystals on Mars, Unveiling New Clues About the Red Planet’s GeologyNASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.
Although Mars is currently a cold, dry planet, geological evidence suggests that liquid water existed there around 3 to 4 ...
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Earth Photobombs Phobos In Incredible View From MarsThat was the 4,295th Martian day that Curiosity has spent on Mars. It is believed that Phobos, or part of it, might in ...
Dubbed "araneiform terrain," the Mars surface formations span over a half-mile long and have hundreds of branches that ...
The ChemCam instrument on the Curiosity rover has fired 1 million times since it landed on Mars in 2012. Image credit: ...
This discovery indicates that formaldehyde contributed to the formation of organic matter on ancient Mars, implying that ...
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