The rover will be moving between two “units” of Gale Crater, where it has been exploring since 2014. It’s wrapping up experiments in the “clay-bearing unit”, which resulted in the highest concentrations of clay found during the mission. It’s now moving to the “sulfate-bearing unit...
Curiosity drilled the piece of bedrock nicknamed "Aberlady" on April 6, and delivered the sample to its internal mineralogy lab on Wednesday. The rover's drill chewed easily through the rock, unlike some tougher targets it faced nearby on Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge. This was the mission's first...
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This NASA animation is based on Mars actual surface. Curiosity's capabilities include a laser that zaps rocks up to 23 feet away to find out what they're made of. It's the first rover that can drill for samples of Mars, and analyze them in its built-in lab. An early sample told us...
NASA's Curiosity rover is analyzing drilled samples on Mars in one of its onboard labs for the first time in more than a year. "This was no small feat. It represents months and months of work by our team to pull this off," said Jim Erickson, project manager of the Mars Science Labo...
(Phys.org)—Two compact laboratories inside NASA's Mars rover Curiosity have ingested portions of the first sample of rock powder ever collected from the interior of a rock on Mars.
In this handout image provided by NASA, one of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on the evening of Aug. 5, 2012. The MSL Rover named Curiosity is equipped with a nuclear-powered lab capable of vaporizing rocks and ingesting soil, measuring habitability...
TheMars Curiosity roverlanded inside the Gale crater on Mars on August 6th, 2012. In the 12 years since, the rover has seen a lot of amazing things on Mars and taken thousands of photos, many unlike anything ever seen before. One such unique photo is the f...
The drilled powder, which appears to be of a softer consistency compared with previous rock samples, has been ingested into Curiosity's onboard chemical lab to determine what the base of Mount Sharp is made of. NEWS: Mars Rover Curiosity Drills into Mount Sharp In this new observation (see ...
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity just might be the latest in a long line of Mars-exploring robots to discover the building blocks for primitive life on the Red Planet. The Curiosity rover may have gathered evidence for the presence of perchlorates in Rocknest — a sand patch inside the rover's...