23 June 2016
Newly found mineral on Mars hints at explosive volcanism
...gathered from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, scientists have discovered an unexpected mineral in ...the Red Planet may have evolved. Since landing in August 2012, Curiosity has been studying Gale Crater – a feature 154 kilometers (96 ...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
... to reduce the Mars 2020 landing zone to an area 50 percent smaller than that for the landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover at Gale Crater in 2012. This allowed the science community to consider more challenging landing sites. The...
October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
...work of the Phoenix Lander and Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity). What the review finds may be surprising: that ...mineral veins at the ‘Garden City’ site examined by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover vary in thickness and brightness. The image covers ...
14 December 2015
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover observes sand dunes two stories tall
...Dune” and is part of "Bagnold Dunes," an area close to Curiosity's current location. Observations of this dune field show that edges of ... enough for sand to slide down. In a view from Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam), a wheel track is left by ...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
...-grained form of the iron oxide mineral hematite, in the dark plains of Terra Meridiani near Mars’ equator. Curiosity landed in Gale Crater, where a combination of photogeologic and orbital spectroscopic evidence of the presence of water-formed clay...
December 2014
The vanity of machines
Me too – Curiosity Mars rover’s selfie at the ‘Windjana’ drilling site. Curiosity has accomplished its main goal by confirming that Mars once possessed conditions favourable for microbial life
