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NASA’s Curiosity rover finds evidence for long-ago CO2 atmosphere on Mars
To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then drops the powdered rock samples into an instrument in its belly called CheMin. The instrument, developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, uses X-ray diffraction to analyze rocks and soil.
NASA Rover Finds Fresh Evidence of the Warm and Wet Past of Mars
A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ancient past when it boasted substantial bodies of water and potentially harbored life.
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NASA's Perseverance rover hits the Mars rock gold mine: 'It has been all we had hoped for and more'NASA's Perseverance rover is reveling in a scientific bonanza on Mars after finding a diverse array of rocks that are ...
Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed on the Red Planet. The U.S. space agency's Perseverance and Curiosity ...
The NASA Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, suggesting that the conditions for life to develop could have been present on the planet billions of years ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled. Named "St. Pauls Bay" by the mission team, the Mars rock features hundreds of millimeter-size ...
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March 25 (UPI) --The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising speculation about if life was created billions of years ago ...
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