January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... Reconnaissance Orbiter images clearly show that lava flows from Tyrrhenum Mons head into the Gale crater via Herschel crater and Farah Vallis - features that do not seem to be taken into account before Curiosity touched down...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... Cousin, A., Bridges, J., ... & Lewin, E. (2017). Egg Rock Encounter: Analysis of an Iron-Nickel Meteorite Found in Gale Crater by Curiosity. 11 Handbook, A. S. M. (2008). Volume 15 Casting. Materials Park: ASM International. 12 Dutta, S. K., & Sah...
01 April 2019
First independent confirmation of methane on Mars
... a small burst of methane at a particular location within Gale Crater - a clay-laden depression suspected of being formed by flowing... firm detection of methane in the Martian atmosphere above Gale Crater one day after the in situ observation of a ...
29 April 2020
Scientists discover ancient nitrogen-bearing organic material in martian meteorite
... found by the Curiosity rover in dried-up mud in the Gale Crater. Because sediment patterns show that a lot of water was... present, continually, over many millions of years in Gale crater, the ancient impact site has become the go-to place for...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
.... Mission scientists believe the 45-kilometer (28-mile-wide) crater, once home to an ancient river delta, could... than that for the landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover at Gale Crater in 2012. This allowed the science community to consider more ...
October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
...). These salts include sulphates, carbonates, chlorides, perchlorates, and nitrates (only recently detected by Curiosity at Gale Crater). Each of these salts have different characteristics when dissolved in water, so to explore their habitability the...
