During the nearly 14 months that it has spent on the red planet, Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, has scooped soil, drilled rocks, and analyzed samples by exposing them to laser ...

The first martian rock NASA’s Curiosity rover has reached out to touch presents a more varied composition than expected from previous missions. The rock also resembles some unusual rocks from Earth’s ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 8, No. 5 (May 15, 1922), pp. 108-115 (8 pages) ...

There are three types of rock found on Earth. These are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. Each rock type is formed in a different way. For example, the rock malachite is mostly made of the ...

Using NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover, a team of scientists including University of Florida astrobiologist Amy Williams has collected the first Martian rock samples that could be returned to Earth – ...

A rock analysed by Nasa's Mars rover has a surprising and more varied composition than expected, resembling rare rocks from the interiors of Earth, the US space agency said. A rock analysed by Nasa's ...

"Finding these igneous rocks in the bed of an ancient lake on Mars was quite a surprise. One would have expected lakebed sediments, but it shows that Mars' history is more complicated than expected, ...

UNIFORM with the “Rock Minerals” of the same author, now in its second edition, the work which Prof. Iddings has now completed will take an assured place as the fullest and most comprehensive ...

I’ve been thinking about granite a lot recently; primarily because we have been covering plate tectonics in my AP Environmental Science class. Granite figures prominently in this discussion because ...

Scientists report on the analysis of a surprisingly Earth-like Martian rock, discovered by the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, that offers new insight into the history of Mars's interior and ...