Athena entered lunar orbit Monday, gathering data as IM checked the lander's systems, then completed its Descent Orbit Insertion ... News // 3 days ago NASA's rover Curiosity finds biggest known ...

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Our How Things Work feature for November 2011 focuses on the landing of the Curiosity ... descent to the surface, and glimpses of the kinds of science investigations the car-size rover will ...

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

Now, scientists are one step closer to answering that question. The NASA Curiosity rover has discovered the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars, suggesting that the conditions for life to ...

They were found by NASA's Curiosity rover when it drilled into a sample of mudstone from a rock nicknamed 'Cumberland', in the Yellowknife Bay region of Mars' Gale crater, all the way back in 2013.