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Curiosity: Update 5 – First Scoop, “Rocknest”

Rocknest on Mars One hundred yards before its destination, Glenelg, Mars Rover Curiosity scoops samples of rock and soil above and below Mars’ surface for two weeks of instrument cleaning and...

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Curiosity: Update 6 – Jake Matijevic, the Martian Rock

Analyzing “Jake Matijevic” Curiosity first discovered “Jake Matijevic,” the pyramid rock on Mars, on September 19, 2012, but on October 11, 2012, NASA released a report on the chemical composition of...

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Curiosity: Update 7 – Fingerprinting Martian Materials

X-Ray View of Martian Soil The latest of Curiosity’s analyses show that the Martian minerals is similar to “weathered basaltic salts of volcanic origin in Hawaii.”  Curiosity’s CheMin (Chemistry and...

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