Curiosity Rover Continues Journey Up Mount Sharp After Science Observations at 'Marias Pass'

By Paul Scott Anderson, on August 20th, 2015

New low-angle “selfie” of the Curiosity rover taken while it was in Marias Pass, consisting of multiple images stitched together. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

After extensive investigations of rock layers in Marias Pass, a shallow valley near the base of Mount Sharp, the Curiosity rover is now heading southwest again, to continue gradually climbing the […]

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Curiosity Finds First Evidence For Possible 'Continental Crust' on Mars

By Paul Scott Anderson, on July 15th, 2015

View of an igneous clast named Harrison, which is embedded in a conglomerate rock in Gale crater, and features elongated light-toned feldspar crystals. This mosaic is a combination of an image from Mastcam with higher-resolution images from ChemCam’s Remote Micro-Imager. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/IRAP/U. Nantes/IAS/MSSS

The Curiosity rover, still roaming in Gale crater, has discovered […]

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Orbiting Rainbows: Using 'Glitter Clouds' to Search For and Image Exoplanets

By Paul Scott Anderson, on April 18th, 2015

The search for exoplanets may one day get a lot more glittery. It sounds a bit like science fiction, but a new NASA proposal called Orbiting Rainbows would use glitter-like materials to help image some of those far-away worlds, which could enable high-resolution imaging at a fraction of the cost.

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