In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

The siderite identified in Curiosity data helps confirm and refine models of Mars's early warm period, more than 3.5 billion ...

NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, and has travelled more than 34 kilometres on the Martian surface. The discovery of carbonate suggests that the atmosphere contained enough carbon ...

A treasure trove of clues from Curiosity reveals that ancient Mars once trapped massive amounts of CO2 in its crust, thanks ...

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered siderite, a carbonate mineral, beneath Mars’ surface—providing new clues that the Red ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has drilled the Mars’ subsurface in three to four centimeters to extract the findings. Explore details of the mission.

A photomosaic taken by the Curiosity rover on April 30, 2023, at one drill site in Gale Crater, Mars. Rock powder samples ...

Mars, once believed to harbour a thick, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere capable of sustaining liquid water, has baffled ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered a hidden chemical archive of ancient Mars' atmosphere, which suggests that ...

Tutolo led a new study of rock samples collected by the Curiosity rover that might have answered this question. The mystery ...