NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

The Curiosity rover—on Mars since 2012—spotted these finger-like rocks on Mount Sharp with its Mastcam on May 15, 2022. They likely formed as groundwater trickled through rock in the ancient ...

A wider view of the Gale crater reveals how much Mars looks like Earth. The highest peak in the background is known as Mount Sharp at five kilometres high. Scientists believe Mount Sharp was ...

For Curiosity, Mount Sharp has provided a new driving route to ... Curiosity – 5 Martian years on: Since landing at Gale Crater on Mars in August 2012, the Curiosity rover has played a vital ...

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From the day we landed, this place looked different from all the others we’d visited on previous missions to Mars. From the summit of Mount Sharp to the highlands of the crater rim to the close ...

Curiosity has been exploring Gale Crater and the base of the large central mountain, Mount Sharp, since 2012. Its main mission is to determine if Mars was ever able to support microbial life.

Ancient ripples suggest a warmer, wetter past for the Red Planet that supported open water on its surface.

Nasa's Mars rover has made its "most unexpected ... Since 2014, Curiosity has been ascending Mount Sharp, a three-mile-high central peak in the crater. Each layer of the mountain "represents ...

And now Nasa has revealed the prototype technology will be used to enable its scientists to work virtually on Mars. The headset ... is close to the base of Mount Sharp, or Aeolis Mons as it ...