03 October 2016
Martian soil helps boost its atmosphere with noble gases
NASA's Curiosity rover has unearthed clues that the Red Planet’s ...team behind the discovery have been using the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument on board the rover, or SAM for short, to run a series of first-of-a-kind experiments to measure all...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
... able 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 sites...
24 June 2019
Unusually high methane spike detected by Curiosity
... NASA's Mars rover Curiosity detected a tenfold spike in methane that at the time proved mysterious. Fast forward four years and NASA ... the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Curiosity rover science team. That would suggest then that something...
01 November 2021
Curiosity finds organic molecules in Mars sand dune
... that have yet to be identified were also found, the team add. Since its arrival on Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring the ancient environments in Gale Crater in search of organic compounds, primarily using its Sample...
07 October 2019
Salty rocks found by Curiosity supports theory that Mars once had vast lakes
... down in Gale crater – a huge depression spanning 154 kilometres (96 mi) in diameter with a mountain, Aeolis Mons, at its centre, NASA's Curiosity rover has come a long way in seven years, not just in terms of the distance its travelled. The hardy...
21 May 2021
New study suggests organic salts are likely present on Mars
Using instruments stowed on board NASA’s Curiosity rover, scientists at JPL have found what could be organic salts on the martian surface. These salts are the ...
