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You’ve probably followed the Mars rover missions on and off for years, watching those red-dust landscapes scroll across your TV screen and wondering: Could something have lived there once? Now, after ...

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Curiosity rover’s recent activities in the Boxwork unit include detailed bedrock analysis, Mastcam mosaics, and atmospheric monitoring, advancing NASA’s ongoing investigation of Mars geology.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent roughly six months exploring a geological feature on Mars known as boxwork: a vast network of low rock ridges, about 3–6 feet (1–2 meters) tall, crisscrossing the ...

Sifting through 180,000 observations, the team found a single event. We may have detected a whistler wave on the Red Planet.

In this age of Mars rovers, questions about the planet's ancient past have shifted. A growing body of evidence supports the ...

The most eye-catching surprise in Curiosity’s close-ups is the nodules, small, bumpy mineral features on and around the ridges. The rover imaged pea-size nodules while exploring the boxwork region on ...

To kick off National Engineers Week, the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science invited hundreds of elementary, middle and high school ...

NASA has mapped every inch of Mars, so positioning consists of the rover looking for geologic features and then comparing that to the distance that the rover has traveled. Older rovers had to stop and ...

Lightning long ago escaped the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere—scientists have already discovered lightning blazing through the skies of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Now they think they’ve found it on ...

A Missouri S&T team is gearing up to reveal its Mars rover design for a competition in May. Its leader is a Columbia native.