Curiosity
Curiosity Sees a Strong Carbon Signature in a Bed of Rocks
Carbon is critical to life, as far as we know. So anytime we detect a strong carbon signature somewhere like…
Curiosity Might Not Be In An Ancient Lake At All
Photos can't do some places justice - nor can any level of sophisticated remote sensing. That seems to be the…
Dune Fields in Gale Crater Tell the Story of Mars’ Shifting Climate Over Eons
Rocks can tell us a lot about a planet. On Earth, the study of geology has been around for hundreds…
Iceland is a Similar Environment to Ancient Mars
A new study conducted by NASA scientists and Rice University shows how Iceland's environment is the closest analog on Earth…
At One Time, This Region of Mars was Inundated by a “Megaflood”
A new study of the Curiosity rover's data has show that the Gale Crater once experienced massive flooding, bolstering the…
Curiosity Is Going To Spend Its Summer Driving Around a Dangerous Sandy Region on Mars
Do road trips actually require roads? Not if you’re NASA’s Curiosity rover, who is embarking on an extended 1 mile…
Now You Can Build Your Own Curiosity Rover
The open source movement has been a fixture in the software and electronics worlds for over a decade now. Open…
Curiosity Sees Earth and Venus in the Night Skies on Mars
Normally the images from NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently sitting near “Bloodstone Hill” on Mars, are of alien vistas and rock…
Curiosity’s Latest Mars Panorama, Captured in 1.8 Billion Glorious Pixels
The Curiosity rover on Mars has captured the most detailed panoramic image ever taken of the Red Planet’s surface. The…
A Glitch Caused Curiosity to Freeze in Place. But It’s Better Now
Article updated at 3:40 pm CST, 1/24/20. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover experienced a technical glitch last week, causing it to…