A photo of one of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover’s wheels, taken by the rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on July 23, 2026, or Sol 4963 of its mission. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has experienced some serious wear and tear during its nearly 14 years on the Red Planet. A…
After years of lab work, the outcomes are in: A rock that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drilled and analyzed in 2020 consists of essentially the most various assortment of natural molecules ever discovered on the Red Planet. Of the 21 carbon-containing molecules recognized within the pattern, seven of them had been detected for the primary…
Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, April 10, 2026 Curiosity spent the previous week driving in the direction of a small crater, about 10 meters (32 toes) in diameter. Today the group informally named this crater “Antofagasta,” after a area and main metropolis in Chile…