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NASA Curiosity Shares Stunning 360 View of Mars With Strange White Rocks
The rover's latest discoveries, including pure sulfur stones and sprawling mineral "spiderwebs," unravel new mysteries of Mars' watery past.
NASA's Curiosity rover captures 360-degree view of Mars — and finds strange sulfur stones
The Mars rover, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has slowly scaled Mount Sharp since 2014. This mountain, officially monikered "Aeolis Mons," was discovered in the 1970s; cut into its alien landscape is the boulder-packed Gediz Vallis channel, which some scientists believe to be an ancient river bed.
NASA's Curiosity Rover Shares 360 Panorama of Gediz Vallis Before Moving On
You can see the expanse of white sulfur-bearing rocks in the panorama, along with some other objects of note. A wall of debris called Pinnacle Ridge looms over Gediz Vallis, and off in the distance, you can see the rim of Gale Crater, where Curiosity has been exploring since it arrived on Mars in 2012.
NASA's Curiosity rover uncovers rare sulphur stones on Mars through Gediz Vallis exploration
NASA's Curiosity rover has concluded its exploration of the Gediz Vallis channel on Mars, revealing clues about the planet's past climate and geology. The rover discovered rare sulphur-rich stones, indicating potential signs of past microbial life.
NASA's Curiosity rover captures rare Sulphur stones on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered rare sulphur stones in the Gediz Vallis channel on Mars, offering new clues about the planet’s geological history.
Whoopsie, NASA Might Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars
When the Viking 1 lander send down twin landers to study Mars in 1976, the results returned a negative result for the ...
Is NASA Actually 'Killing' Life on Mars?
"The experiments performed by NASA's Viking landers may have accidentally killed Martian life by applying too much water," ...
NASA releases stunning images from Mars rover as it searches for evidence life could have existed
NASA scientists are hoping to understand the history of where they found the rocks — and for evidence of ancient microbial ...
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Did NASA's Perseverance rover really find organics on Mars? These scientists aren't so sure
Could Mars have once hosted life? NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered a tantalizing clue, but scientists remain divided ...
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NASA Mars Scientists Ponder 'Peculiar Pale Pebbles' Mystery
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spots a scattering of bizarre bright white pebbles of a mysterious composition and origin.
Evidence of hot water that’s essential to life points to Mars’ habitable past
Researchers have uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of hot water activity on Mars, suggesting the red planet ...
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NASA chooses SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver rover, astronaut base to the moon
NASA wants a lunar habitat on the surface of the moon in less than ten years. NASA is keeping its foot on the gas for the ...
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NASA May Have Inadvertently Killed Life on Mars, Scientist Says
According to astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch of the Technical University Berlin in Germany, an experiment to detect the ...
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Scientist Says NASA Lander May Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany believes that humans may have ...
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‘Life on Mars?’ Is More Than a David Bowie Song—It’s a Question Humans Keep Asking
Following the 1990s discovery that Mars had once been a watery oasis in the solar system’s habitable zone, NASA devised a ...