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After 3 attempts, NASA's Curiosity rover has finally reached a large ridge composed of ancient mud and rocks. The ridge preserves a record of Mars' wet past.
A new image from the Curiosity rover depicts morning and afternoon on Mars. The colorized image represents one day on the red planet.
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Curiosity rover's arrival on Mars, here’s a video on the final 7 minutes of its chilling descent on August 5-6, 2012.
NASA's Curiosity rover has spotted some intriguing stick-like rock spikes, resembling hoodoos on Earth, but much smaller. How did they form?
We already know that Gale Crater on Mars used to hold a lake or series of lakes a few billion years ago. Now, NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence for ancient giant floods that washed through the region as well.
This just in ... a new super-cool composite from Curiosity on Mars. The panorama contains more than 1,000 images taken last Thanksgiving and assembled over the past few months ... 1.8 billion new pixels of Martian landscape!
Watch Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos cross the sun in a pair of solar eclipses last month, in these animations made from images from the Curiosity rover's cameras.
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover drove about 197 feet (60 meters) over this past weekend to a site called Lake Orcadie. This was Curiosity's longest drive since experiencing a memory anomaly on September 15.
As NASA explained, "On Mars, wind rules."
If you want to imagine standing on the surface of the Red Planet Mars ... look at this.
The discovery adds to the evidence that ancient Mars was habitable for life.
The mission's emphasis has changed from drive, drive, drive to systematic layer-by-layer investigation. "Curiosity flew hundreds of millions of miles to do this."
Mission planners didn't anticipate that Curiosity would be driving over an area on Mars that has sharp, pyramid-shaped rocks embedded in hard ground.
Today is the second anniversary of the Mars rover Curiosity's landing inside the Martian Gale Crater on August 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6, 2012, EDT).
The car-sized rover is currently crossing a stretch of hard, rocky ground like that which previously dented and punctured its aluminum wheels.
Earth is now an evening "star" as seen in the sky of Mars. A closer look reveals a double world.
The Curiosity rover is in a particularly interesting place now, creeping across a sand dune in a place called Dingo Gap on Mars. Breathtaking images!
The first scoop of soil analyzed in the belly of the Curiosity rover on Mars reveals that fine materials on the surface of the planet contain several percent water by weight.
NASA has released seven images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing Curiosity's parachute shifting its shape in response to the wind on Mars.
Self-portrait of the Mars Curiosity rover on a flat, rocky perch in the Yellowknife Bay region of Mars' Gale Crater.
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