Tag: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • NASA’s Curiosity Rover Makes a Stunning Find

    NASA’s Curiosity Rover Makes a Stunning Find

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    “Finding a field of stones made of pure sulfur is like finding an oasis in the desert,” said Curiosity’s project scientist, Ashwin Vasavada of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “It shouldn’t be there, so now we have to explain it. Discovering strange and unexpected things is what makes planetary exploration so exciting.” It’s…

  • Martian Atmosphere Destroyed Billions of Years Ago

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    CNN’s Elizabeth Landau highlights new findings by NASA’s Mars rover Curiousity: Two new studies in the journal Science this week suggest that the Martian atmosphere hasn’t changed much in terms of chemical composition in the past 4 billion years. It’s much thinner than our planet’s atmosphere, and the mix of ingredients isn’t friendly to living…

  • Photo of the Day

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    A composite of several Cassini images shows Titan’s varied surface, including possibly a remnant of an old impact basin (large circular feature near the center of Titan’s disk). Mountain ranges to the southeast of the circular feature, and the dark linear feature to the northwest of the circular impact scar may be evidence of past…