Rocks loafing about on the surface of Mars have been harboring secrets about the red planet's mysterious past.

SuperCam carried out its 500,000th laser shot on a Martian rock named "Whites river," located 12 meters from the Perseverance rover. This event follows the millionth shot of ChemCam, the instrument on ...

This discovery was made using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) and Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) instruments aboard the Curiosity rover. SAM heats samples up to nearly 1,652 degrees Fahrenheit ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered rocky material ... Gasda and his colleagues analyzed data obtained by Curiosity's ChecmCam, a laser that blasts rock surfaces to form plasma.

The rover talks to earth by sending radio waves ... Higher (and newer) layers consist of drier, finer sulfate minerals. Curiosity's Laser Spectrometer has recorded localized burps of methane ...

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As a member of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, Melikechi contributes to the analysis of spectroscopic data collected by the Chemistry Camera instrument on board the Curiosity Rover. In ...

In January 2023, NASA's Curiosity rover captured images of noctilucent clouds during a Martian sunset, including a rare category of iridescent bright noctilucent clouds that appear feather-shaped ...

For the first time, a Mars rover has measured the mass of the rocks beneath its wheels. By taking gravity measurements as it climbed a Martian mountain, Curiosity discovered something surprising ...

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