NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has halted its trek up a mountain filled with potentially habitable niches for life while engineers troubleshoot a problem with one of its key instruments, scientists said on Tuesday.
Mars is still a strange and different world, and here are five strange things that NASA has taken pictures of about the red planet.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is studying its surroundings and monitoring the environment, rather than driving or using its arm for science, while the rover team diagnoses an issue with a motor that moves the rover’s drill.
A photo from NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars set the Internet abuzz this week with claims that the robot had found a “thigh bone” on the Red Planet. But not so fast. That so-called bone? Just a weathered Martian rock, NASA says.
NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has been used to measure the weathering of meteorites on the Red Planet, revealing just how little water there is on the surface.
Laser-zapping of a globular, golf-ball-size object on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover confirms that it is an iron-nickel meteorite fallen from the Red Planet’s sky.
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is now selecting rock targets for its laser spectrometer — the first time autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of this kind on any robotic planetary mission.
Scientists have discovered an unexpected mineral in a rock sample at Gale Crater on Mars, a finding that may alter our understanding of how the planet evolved.
A mysterious spike of methane picked up by the Curiosity rover two years ago has yet to reoccur.
Particularly fascinating is the surface color and horizon, appearing more similar to what we see on Earth compared to many of the deep red images we have presented in the past where the red Martian atmosphere dominates.
