A big mystery is why the ridges were hardened into these big patterns and why only here,” said Ashwin Vasavada, project scientist for the NASA Curiosity rover, following the mission publishing the ...

Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for ...

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the tale.

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

Scientists had hypothesized before the rover arrived that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the ...

The rover recently drilled a sample from a new region with features that could reveal whether Mars’ subsurface once provided ...

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only ...

GlassPoint, the leader in decarbonizing industrial process heat, today announced a partnership with Searles Valley Minerals ...

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red Planet from space.. Scientists say the discovery of siderite, a type of ...

“Sulphate minerals exist with different amounts of water in most regions on Mars and allow us to understand how water moved around the planet, which is key to understanding its past habitability ...

But only evaporation would lead to highly pure siderite forming in the same geologic layer as the sulfate minerals the team identified, gypsum and starkeyite. Atmospheric CO 2 must have dissolved ...

“Sulphate minerals exist with different amounts of water in most regions on Mars and allow us to understand how water moved around the planet, which is key to understanding its past habitability ...