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

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New research reveals ancient ripples on Mars, providing compelling evidence of long-lost lakes that once existed 3.7 billion ...

The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, with no ice covering the surface ...

Mars Science Laboratory Our How Things Work feature for November 2011 focuses on the landing of the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory in August 2012. But that will be just the start of this most ...

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Sampling takes minutes, not weeks. Back in the lab we analyze samples in a few days rather than the months it takes Curiosity. On Earth as on Mars, doing fieldwork well takes a great deal of ...

The largest payload delivered to the Martian surface to date has been the Mars Science Laboratory with the Curiosity rover. It delivered roughly one metric ton (MT) to the surface through the use of ...

In November 2011, Nasa launched the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission from Florida with the Curiosity rover aboard – the fourth Nasa robot sent to Mars since 1996, and at the time the ...

Scroll down for video The resulting image reveals Curiosity in high definition surrounded by the bleak and desert like landscape in the Pahrump Hills within the enormous Gale crater on Mars.

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science ... taken by the Curiosity rover shows pure yellow sulfur crystals within a rock. NASA’s Curiosity rover ran over a rock on Mars in late May.