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Curiosity Rover Uncovers 3.7-Billion-Year-Old Ripples That Suggest Mars Once Had Ice-Free Lakes

Ancient ripples suggest a warmer, wetter past for the Red Planet that supported open water on its surface.

Ingenious new technique shows Mars' Mount Sharp to be very porous

Yay for creative science!

Curiosity rover finds that its landing crater on Mars could have been habitable for 700 million years

We don't know whether Mars held life... but there's certainly a lot of potential.

NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain

It’s been a while since we’ve talked about the Curiosity rover, but that doesn’t mean that it stopped studying the Red Planet. Now, NASA’s rover has reached one of its main destinations: Mars’ Mount Sharp, a Mount-Rainier-size mountain at the center of the vast Gale Crater and the rover mission’s long-term prime destination. “Curiosity now will […]

Curiosity rover snaps a video of Martian moonrise

The otherwordly new video features one of the two Martian moons – Phobos, as it rises on the sky. Even though the movie only has 32 seconds, the action actually took place over the course of 27 minutes. Mars has two moons: Phobos (which is just 22 km wide on average), and Deimos, which is […]

Astonishing news from NASA: evidence of hospitable environment for ancient Martian life found

I just finished watching NASA‘s latest and definitely most important Curiosity briefing to date. There the Curiosity team announced findings nothing short of spectacular: a slew of chemical elements, minerals and other chemicals have been found in the rover’s first drilled rock sample on Mars,  hinting that, at least in the vicinity of the sample […]

Curiosity takes a deep breath, analyzes Martian atmosphere

Curiosity took a break from its usual rock sampling activities and instead focused on the air, trying to figure out how Mars lost the biggest part of its atmosphere, leaving it with 100 times less than what Earth has.   Researchers believe in the distant past, Mars was a pretty different sight from what we […]