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Mars Kept a Secret for 3.5 Billion Years – NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finally Dug It Up
Scientists using NASA’s Curiosity rover have discovered siderite—an iron carbonate—in the sulfate-rich rocks of Gale Crater, ...
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NASA's Curiosity rover finds major clue that Mars was once habitable
NASA's Curiosity rover has found iron-rich carbonates on Mars, offering new clues about the planet's ancient climate and ...
NASA's Curiosity rover uncovers a 3.5 billion-year-old secret hiding beneath its surface-- Here's what it is
NASA's Curiosity rover has unearthed compelling evidence of a past carbon cycle on Mars, discovering siderite within Gale ...
Curiosity rover finds key ingredient for past life on Mars
In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...
NASA rover finds fresh evidence of the warm and wet past of Mars
A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...
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Mars: Facts about the Red Planet, its moons, and possibilities for life
Mars orbits at an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million km) from the sun. Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth's. Sunlight takes about 13 minutes to get to Mars, while it ...
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Curiosity rover finds large carbon deposits on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012, and has travelled more than 34 kilometres on the Martian surface. The discovery of carbonate suggests that the atmosphere contained enough carbon ...