Tag: Curiosity

Washington: Besides over two weeks of scientific operations, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has conducted its longest drive since experiencing a memory anomaly two months ago, pushing its total odometry to over 20 kilometers. The rover is now located at the Red Planet’s Lake Orcadie, a site where NASA previously attempted to drill into the grey rock. […]

Madrid: Rocks rich in silica similar to those in the oldest part of Earth’s continental crust are scattered throughout the area where NASA’s Curiosity probe is exploring on Mars, according to a study published on Monday in Nature Geo-science. The discovery comes amid growing evidence that, in the past, Mars may have been much more […]

After an exhaustive analysis of data obtained during 605 Martian days, NASA's Curiosity rover has confirmed the presence of methane on Mars environment which may hint that life once existed on the Red Planet