Curiosity rover News
"The spikes are most likely the cemented fillings of ancient fractures in a sedimentary rock. The rest of the rock was made of softer material and was eroded away," the caption read.
The atmosphere on Mars is usually thin, dry and cloudy days are rare
Clouds are typically found at the planet`s equator in the coldest time of year
Scientists noticed clouds forming over the Curiosity rover earlier than expected, one full Martian year ago - two Earth years
Both drill targets were unveiled in a new selfie taken by the rover on May 12, the 2,405th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, NASA said in a statement.
Data from NASA's Curiosity rover reveal that billions of years ago, a water lake inside a crater held all the ingredients necessary for life
The droid, which landed near Mount Sharp five years ago, is examining clues on that mountain about long-ago lakes on Mars.
The image was taken on June 5, 2017, two months before the fifth anniversary of Curiosity's landing near Mount Sharp on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6, 2017, EDT and Universal Time).
Curiosity's primary goal when it landed inside Gale Crater in 2012 was to determine whether Mars has ever offered environmental conditions favourable for microbial life.
YouTube channel UFO Hunter has found a "spoon" in a NASA image taken by the Curiosity Rover droid.
Now, the rover is on its way toward uphill destinations of Mount Sharp.
The US space agency NASA has released a 360-degree view of eroded mesas and buttes on the red planet.
4th August, 2016 marks Curiosity's fourth anniversary on the Red Planet and this evidently calls for a celebration, which NASA has wasted no time in doing!
NASA has recently released a new image of its Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars.
No active dunes have been visited anywhere in the solar system besides Earth.
Photograph taken from NASA's Curiosity rover shows "mystery alien" peeking out of cave.
While the world is going gaga over the presence of flowing brine or salty water on the Red Planet, questions are now being asked why the US space agency did not direct its Curiosity rover to the place where water proofs were recorded for a closer look.
The US space agency NASA is all set to announce major science finding from the agency’s ongoing exploration of Mars during a news pres conference at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, September 28.
An ambitious project that aims to bring rock samples from Mars -- collected by NASA's 2020 Mars rover - to Earth to find out traces of ancient life on the Red Planet can be launched as early as 2022, Space.com reported, citing NASA officials.
Have we finally succeeded in finding life on Mars? A top UFO website claims so.
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured large-scale inclined bedding structures on Mars - characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes and then cemented into rock.
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