Mount Sharp News
Curiosity landed near Mount Sharp in Gale Crater in August 2012. It reached the base of the mountain in 2014. Layers of rocks at the base of Mount Sharp accumulated as sediment within ancient lakes around 3.5 billion years ago.
Now, the rover is on its way toward uphill destinations of Mount Sharp.
Curiosity has beamed back in what appears to be beautifully detailed colour images of the Martian surface.
Curiosity has scooped up sample material at only one other site since it landed on Mars in August 2012.
Water that is acidic would tend to carry other ingredients away and leave silica behind.
Mars Science Laboratory presents recent results of its quest to not just follow the water but to understand where it came from, and how long it lasted on the surface of Mars so long ago.
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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