The team also compared the Chang'e 5 regolith samples with lunar material brought back to Earth by NASA's Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972. The researchers found three exotic igneous clasts ...

These rocks really shouldn't be there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The surprising discovery of volcanic, "igneous ...

When NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down in Jezero Crater in 2021, scientists expected to find rocks laid down by an ancient lake. What they didn’t expect was volcanic rock. And certainly ...

The texture of the rock, Stack Morgan says, was “a textbook igneous volcanic rock texture.” It looked like volcanic lava flows. Over the next six months, several more rocks on the crater floor ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has good reason to be proud. It's almost done building the very first sample depot on another world by depositing a collection of tubes stuffed with rocks onto the ...

Percy currently has 12 rock samples on board, ... It also collected igneous rock samples earlier in the mission that point to the impact of long-ago volcanic action in the crater.

NASA's Perseverance rover has collected several "tantalizing" rock samples from an ancient river delta on Mars, setting the stage for an elaborate future mission that aims to retrieve the ...

Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, ...