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Curiosity Finds First In Situ Evidence of Carbon Cycle on Ancient Mars
A surprise discovery in Gale Crater is the component that was missing in the puzzle of Mars's climate history.
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 ...
Mars Kept a Secret for 3.5 Billion Years – NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finally Dug It Up
Scientists using NASA’s Curiosity rover have discovered siderite—an iron carbonate—in the sulfate-rich rocks of Gale Crater, ...
Dark, Pitted, and Possibly Alien: The Skull Hill Rock That Has Scientists Stumped
NASA’s Mars rover is on the trail of a geological mystery in the Jezero crater. While exploring an area known as Witch Hazel ...
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Curiosity rover finds key ingredient for past life on Mars
As with all of Curiosity’s previous work, these latest discoveries come from inside the 96-mile-wide Gale Crater. Located about 4.5 degrees south of the Martian equator, Gale Crater formed ...
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Life on Mars WAS possible! Scientists say carbon residue in the Red Planet's rocks show it was habitable billions of years ago
It was picked up within the sulfate-rich rocky layers of Mount Sharp in Mars’ Gale Crater. ‘The discovery of abundant siderite in Gale Crater represents both a surprising and important ...