NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers a Surprise in a Martian Rock
Jul 18, 2024 · NASA’s Curiosity captured this close-up image of a rock nicknamed “Snow Lake” on June 8, 2024, the 4,209th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Nine days earlier, the rover had crushed a similar-looking rock and revealed crystalline textures — and elemental sulfur — inside.
Mars Science Laboratory: Curiosity Rover News & Features
NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life – with evidence for widespread liquid water on the surface – to a surface that…
Curiosity Rover Updates - NASA Science
6 days ago · Curiosity Rover Updates. These updates are provided by self-selected Mars Science Laboratory mission team members who love to share what Curiosity is doing with the public.
Mars Science Laboratory: Curiosity Rover - NASA Science
Part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, Curiosity, was the largest and most capable rover ever sent to Mars when it launched in 2011. Curiosity set out to answer the question: Did Mars ever have the right environmental conditions to support small life forms called microbes?
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers a Surprise in a Martian Rock
Jul 18, 2024 · Scientists were stunned on May 30 when a rock that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drove over cracked open to reveal something never seen before on the Red Planet: yellow sulfur crystals. Since October 2023, the rover has been exploring a region of Mars rich with sulfates, a kind of salt that contains sulfur and forms as water evaporates.
NASA’s Curiosity Captures Stunning Views of a Changing Mars …
Jun 22, 2022 · NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a sulfate-bearing region using its Mastcam on May 2, 2022, the 3,462nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Dark boulders seen near the center are thought to have formed from sand deposited in ancient streams or ponds.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Clocks 4,000 Days on Mars - NASA
Nov 6, 2023 · NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama using its black-and-white navigation cameras, or Navcams, at a location where it collected a sample from a rock nicknamed “Sequoia.” The panorama was captured on Oct. 21 and 26, 2023.
NASA’s Curiosity Finds Surprise Clues to Mars’ Watery Past
Feb 8, 2023 · NASA's Curiosity used its Mastcam to capture this 360-degree panorama of Marker Band Valley on Dec. 16, 2022. Rippled rock textures found in this area are the clearest evidence the rover has seen of water and waves from Mars' …
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Explores a Changing Landscape
Aug 17, 2021 · Images of knobbly rocks and rounded hills are delighting scientists as NASA’s Curiosity rover climbs Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall (8-kilometer-tall) mountain within the 96-mile-wide (154-kilometer-wide) basin of Mars’ Gale Crater.
NASA’s Curiosity rover makes its ‘most unexpected’ find on Mars - CNN
Jul 20, 2024 · CNN — The Curiosity rover has made its most unusual find to date on Mars: rocks made of pure sulfur. And it all began when the 1-ton rover happened to drive over a rock and crack it open,...