HiRISE Views Mars Curiosity Rover Climbing Mount Sharp
This newly released image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a view of the Mars Curiosity Rover amid rocky terrain on Mount Sharp. The car-size…
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Curiosity Reveals Evidence of Diverse Environments on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has revealed a wide diversity of minerals in the initial samples of rocks from the lowermost layers of Mount Sharp on Mars,…
Curiosity Reveals Environmental Conditions of Ancient Martian Lake
Using data from NASA’s Curiosity Rover, new research reveals that a long-lasting lake on ancient Mars provided stable environmental conditions that differed significantly from one…
Curiosity Rover Samples Active Linear Dune on the Surface of Mars
From February to April 2017, NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover examined linear sand dunes to compare with what it found in 2015 and 2016 during an…
New Curiosity Images Show Sand Moving One Day to Next on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Rover views sand moving one day to the next on the surface of Mars. This pair of images shows effects of one Martian…
New Curiosity Results Bring the Paradox of Ancient Mars to Focus
New research reveals that Mars had far too little carbon dioxide about 3.5 billion years ago to provide enough greenhouse-effect warming to thaw water ice….
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Examines Possible Mud Cracks
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover has examined slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that likely originated as cracks in drying mud. “Mud cracks are the…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Views Layered Rock Formations
The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover, which is currently exploring the…
Curiosity Rover Continues to Gather Martian Soil Samples
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover continues its campaign to study active sand dune on Mars, scooping and analyzing samples. At its current location for inspecting an…
New Curiosity Image Shows ‘Garden City’ Site on Mount Sharp
This new image from NASA’s Curiosity Rover shows the the “Garden City” site and surroundings on Mount Sharp. This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam)…
Curiosity Reveals Clues About Past Water, Climate, and Habitability on Mars
Newly published research from Caltech describes ancient water flows and lakes on Mars, and what this might mean about the ancient climate. We have heard…
New Curiosity Rover Image Shows Petrified Sand Dunes
A newly released image from NASA’s Curiosity Rover shows petrified sand dunes on the surface of Mars. Some of the dark sandstone in an area…
Curiosity Rover Reveals Evidence of Ancient Top-of-Atmosphere Loss
What Happened to the Early Mars’ Atmosphere? A newly published study looks to answer this question and eliminate one possible theory. Scientists may be closer…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finishes ‘Marias Pass’ Studies, Headed to Mount Sharp
The Curiosity Mars rover has finished activities in Marias Pass and is headed onward up Mount Sharp. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is driving toward the…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers Bedrock with High Levels of Silica
After almost three years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover continues to amaze. This time Curiosity has discovered a target unlike anything it has studied…
Indirect Evidence of Transient Liquid Water on Mars
New calculations indicate favorable conditions for small quantities of brine to form during some nights throughout the year on Mars. The possibility for liquid brines…
HiRISE Images Reveal the Fading Scars of Mars Rover Landing
A series of observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how dark blast zones from the Curiosity rover have faded inconsistently. The High Resolution Imaging…
Curiosity Finds Evidence of Nitrates on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered evidence of nitrates in scooped samples of windblown sand and dust at the “Rocknest” site, providing further evidence that the…