Mars Rover Curiosity

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  NASA's Curiosity Rover Unexpectedly Uproots Rock During Drill On Mars

  The rock is estimated to be about 1.5 feet in diameter at its base, around 6 inches thick and weighs roughly 28.6 pounds or 13 kilograms.

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  Mysterious Skull-Shaped Rock Found On Mars, NASA Uncertain About Its Origin

  Though most of the region surrounding the rock is light-colored and dusty, Skull Hill is dark, angular, and covered in tiny pits.

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  Wish You Were Here: NASA's Curiosity Rover Sends a Rare Postcard From Mars to Mark 10th Anniversary

  NASA's Curiosity rover celebrated the 10th anniversary of its launch on November 26 by sending a spectacular postcard from the Red Planet. The rover had captured two black-and-white images of the thrilling Martian landscape while it was perched on the side of Mount Sharp.

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  NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Completes 2,000 Days on Mars

  The six-wheeled Mars Curiosity rover has traveled 11.6 miles (18.7 kilometers) since its arrival in 2012.

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  Curiosity Rover's Five-Year Journey Across Mars In One Stunning Photo

  After 1,856 Martian days among blue sunsets, sand dunes and small, lumpy moons, the Mars rover Curiosity sat on the ridge of an ancient lake bed and looked back on its five-year-long journey so far.

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  NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Develops Drill Glitch

  NASA said its Curiosity Mars rover is not currently using its arm for science as it has detected an issue with a motor that moves the rover's drill.

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  How Wind Created Mile-High Mounds On Mars: Researchers

  Wind carved massive mounds of more than a mile high on Mars over billions of years, say researchers, suggesting that their location can help pin down when water on the Red Planet dried up during a global climate change event.

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  NASA's Mars Rover Spots Loads Of Silica, Bolsters Water Presence

  NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found mysterious rocks rich in silica - a rock-forming chemical combining the elements silicon and oxygen and commonly seen on Earth as quartz.

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  NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures Petrified Sand Dunes on Mars

  NASA's Curiosity rover has captured large-scale inclined bedding structures on Mars - characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes and then cemented into rock.

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  Forget Ice, Mars May Have Liquid Water: Study

  Adding to the growing literature on possible life conditions on the Red Planet, new research from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows that it is possible that there is liquid water close to the surface of Mars.

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  Mars Rover Curiosity Finds First Mineral Match

  NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered the first mineral match from the Martian surface, the US space agency has announced.

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  Nasa's Mars Rover Curiosity Drills First Hole Into Mount Sharp

  The rover's hammering drill chewed about 2.6 inches deep into a basal-layer outcrop on Mount Sharp and collected a powdered-rock sample last week, Nasa said in a statement.

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  NASA's Curiosity rover finds 'abundant' water on Mars

  The first scoop of soil analysed by the Curiosity rover has revealed that fine materials on the Martian surface may contain water.

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  Mars rovers get an April 'staycation' thanks to the sun

  Such communication blackouts occur every two years when the red planet disappears behind the Sun.

• Mars rover Curiosity stands down after new problem

  The Mars rover Curiosity is sidelined again, further delaying the restart of science experiments, after recovering from a computer problem.