The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

Scientists had hypothesized before the rover arrived that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the ...

Boxwork patterns on Mars are fascinating geological formations that resemble spiderwebs or honeycombs. Scientists were ...

The reconnaissance orbiter, which has been circling Mars since 2006, caught a glimpse of Curiosity on Feb. 28, 2025, along with the tracks the rover left behind.

NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

For apparently the first time ever, the Curiosity rover on Mars has been spotted mid-drive from orbit, a speck of human presence on the otherwise barren and grayscale landscape. The image, taken ...

The study, “Carbonates identified by the Curiosity rover indicate a carbon cycle operated on ancient Mars,” was published in Science (Volume 388, pages 292-297) on April 18, 2025. Benjamin M. Tutolo ...

The shock new discovery was found in data from 2022 and 2023, when the Curiosity rover, which has been beavering around Gale Crater for more than 10 years now, ... A diagram of the team's proposed ...

Carbonates identified by the Curiosity rover indicate a carbon cycle operated on ancient Mars. Science , 2025; 388 (6744): 292 DOI: 10.1126/science.ado9966 Cite This Page : ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.

As fun as it would be to visit Mars, we wouldn't necessarily want to walk a mile in the Curiosity rover's shoes — or rather, its wheels. After landing in Mars' Gale Crater in 2012 and traveling ...

Wheel Life. NASA's Curiosity rover has spent over 4,400 Earth days exploring the desolate surface of Mars — enough time, by Sam Altman's reckoning, for the emergence of superintelligent AI.. It ...