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Curiosity Rover Finds Two Tone Mineral Veins On Mars’ Surface

April 4, 2015 |

Climbing up Mt. Sharp in the middle of Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered two-tone mineral veins on a layered mountain which provides new clues of multiple fluid movement episodes on Mars, including some that occurred later than the wet conditions that formed after lake-bed deposits at its base. Read More

Life On Mars? NASA’ Curiosity Rover Finds Traces Of Nitrates On Mars

March 26, 2015 |

Scientists for a long time were fairly certain that at one point in the universe’s history, Mars was host to forms of life, but that theory might have just been confirmed by NASA’ rover. Curiosity rover tasked with surveying the Red Planet has come up with surprising results when gathering samples from the soil and the environment of Mars. Read More

Curiosity Finds Possible Evidence of Ancient Life on Mars

January 11, 2015 |

Time and time again, as we carefully scrutinize the amazing high-resolution imagery flowing to Earth from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, we see weird things etched in Martian rocks. Most of the time our brains are playing tricks on us. At other times, however, those familiar rocky features can be interpreted as processes that also occur on Earth. Read More

Curiosity Rover Bolsters Evidence For Life: ‘Great Lake’ On Red Planet

December 14, 2014 |

Ever imagine that the red planet’s surface may once have had a different appearance? Well while researchers at NASA have had rovers scoping out Mars’ surface for years, new information received from NASA’s Curiosity Rover suggests that the planet’s craters may once have served a different purpose, and that the arid red planet may once have had long-lasting above ground lakes. Read More

Amazing Facts About Planet Mars

November 7, 2014 |

Many of us have gotten used to believing that Mars is just another lonely, lifeless planet. True, its atmospheric conditions are just too extreme to be habitable by any life form that we know of. But that doesn’t make it an uninteresting planet at all. Through continuous advancements in technology, we’ve learned a lot about the red planet. Here are some of the most fascinating facts about Mars that you might not have known. Read More

Curiosity Spots “Lebanon”

July 17, 2014 |

Talk about heavy metal! This shiny, lumpy rock spotted by NASA’s Curiosity rover is likely made mostly of iron—and came from outer space! It’s an iron meteorite, similar to ones found in years past by Curiosity’s forerunners Spirit and Opportunity, but is considerably larger than any of the ones the MER rovers came across… in fact, at 2 meters (6.5 feet) wide this may very well be the biggest meteorite ever discovered on Mars Read More

Yamato 000593: The Proof That In The Tast There Was Life On Mars?

February 26, 2014 |

A recent study published in February’s issue of the journal Astrobiology has a surprising theory suggesting biological processes might have been at work on the Red Planet. Read More

Mars Moon Rising In The Sky

February 25, 2014 |

Curiosity, the martian rover, captured in 86 photos one of the “Moons” of Mars, Phobos, rising in the sky of the planet. Read More

How Earth Is Seen From Mars At Night?

February 6, 2014 |

Using images taken by the rover Curiosity in the 529-th day of its mission to Mars, experts have obtained images of the planet Earth, which appears as a small “star” light the Martian night sky. Read More

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