The rocks, discovered by NASA's Curiosity rover, are unusually rich in manganese oxide — a chemical that adds to growing ...

A collection of rocks scattered on an ancient shoreline on Mars might indicate that the Red Planet was once far more Earth-like than scientists previously thought. The rocks, discovered by NASA's ...

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Ancient Mars may have been surprisingly similar to planet Earth, a NASA rover has revealed. Using the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover, research teams from the Los Alamos National ...

In a remarkable discovery, scientists have found higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars. The results suggest that the sediments were formed in a river, ...

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Manganese-rich sandstones discovered by NASA’s Curiosity rover indicate there were once habitable conditions in the Gale ...

NASA’s mission to retrieve a sample from Mars is over budget and behind schedule. But it may be our best chance to learn ...

Mar. 13, 2024 — A deeply eroded giant volcano, active from ancient through recent times and with possible remnants of glacier ice near its base, had been hiding near Mars' equator in plain sight.