Martian Dust Storm Grows, Is Now “Planet-Encircling”
A storm of tiny dust particles has engulfed much of Mars over the last two weeks and prompted NASA’s Opportunity rover to suspend science operations….
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NASA’s Curiosity Finds Ancient Organic Material on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Will Test Percussive Drilling on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover could soon be drilling rocks on Mars again. Engineers have been working for the past year to restore the rover’s full drilling…
Mars Curiosity Rover Prepares for Its Next Adventure
This mosaic, taken by the Mars Curiosity rover, looks uphill at Mount Sharp. Spanning the center of the image is an area with clay-bearing rocks…
Mars Curiosity Rover Celebrates Its Two-Thousandth Martian Day
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet. An image mosaic taken by the…
Mars Curiosity Rover Conducts First Test of a New Drilling Technique
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has conducted the first test of a new drilling technique on the Red Planet since its drill stopped working reliably. This…
Curiosity Rover Inspects Star-Shaped Bumps in Martian Bedrock
Star-shaped and swallowtail-shaped tiny, dark bumps in fine-layered bright bedrock of a Martian ridge are drawing close inspection by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. This set…
New Self-Portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover on Vera Rubin Ridge
A new self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge, which it has been investigating for the past several months….
Revealing What Lies Beneath – Curiosity Looks for Minerals in Target Rocks
This newly released false-color image demonstrates how use of special filters available on the Curiosity Mars rover’s Mast Camera (Mastcam) can reveal the presence of…
Large Solar Storm Sparks Global Aurora on the Martian Surface
An unexpectedly strong blast from the Sun hit Mars last month, sparking a global aurora more than 25 times brighter than any previously seen by…
Boron Discovery Provides Clues to Whether Life Could Have Existed on Mars
The ChemCam instrument on NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover reveals Boron in calcium-sulfate veins on Mars, helping us better understand the timescale of habitability on Mars….
NASA’s Curiosity Watches Clouds Move Across the Martian Sky
New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover show wispy, early-season clouds resembling Earth’s ice-crystal cirrus clouds moving across the Martian sky. These clouds are the…
Five Years of Curiosity Rover Discoveries on Mars
Five years of Curiosity’s Martian discoveries after landing day’s seven minute of terror. NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover landed near Mount Sharp five years ago this…
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…
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…