Curiosity rover spots ancient sea of Martian polygons
Scientists say the fractures may mark ancient mud cracks, but they have never seen such a dense cluster in one place.
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Perseverance's Mars sample tubes were built to be among the cleanest objects humans have made, because their job is to preserve ancient Martian chemistry — and one untreated fingerprint would have exceeded the entire organic contamination allowance by roughly 300 times.
The cleanliness requirement for a Perseverance sample tube can be expressed in a number small enough to be almost meaningless at first glance: 150 nanograms. That was the upper limit NASA set for the total mass of Earth-derived organic compounds allowed in a collected sample. For a narrower group of compounds considered especially relevant to the chemistry of life, the limit fell to 15 nanograms. An average thumbprint carries about 45,000 nanogr…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Honeycombs on Mars, They Were Not Made by Bees
Ever since the Perseverance rover landed on Mars back in 2021, the activities of the only other operational rover up there have kind of taken a back seat. That doesn’t mean, though, that the Curiosity is no longer capable of surprises. Presently located in a region of the planet called Valle Grande, the (continue reading...)
NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures Miraflores Rising Alone Above a Sea of Martian Honeycombs
Curiosity has been climbing the broad valley nicknamed Valle Grande for weeks when its cameras locked onto something that stopped the science team cold. On June 11, 2026, the 4,923rd Martian day of the mission, the rover’s Mastcam stitched together eleven frames into a clean panorama of a solitary butte standing roughly 20 feet tall. [...]
A NASA rover just discovered something strange on Mars – and scientists can’t explain it
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter NASA’s Curiosity rover just made a strange discovery. The vehicle stumbled upon honeycomb-like patterns of polygons on the surface of the Martian valley The post A NASA rover just discovered something strange on Mars – and scientists can’t explain it appeared first on Western Morning News.
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