Curiosity Mars Rover
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![NASA's Mars rover Curiosity collected rock samples from the Yellowknife Bay formation of Gale crater.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wawRoJSVfgvuL3mTbaGZmc-320-80.jpg)
Rock samples from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover contain key ingredient of life
By Samantha Mathewson published
Martian rock samples collected by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show signs of key ingredients of life as we know it on Earth.
![a Martian landscape view](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/uRwNofdEFQyCAPX3MayobS-320-80.jpg)
Stunning Mars photos by the Curiosity rover show ancient climate shift
By Elizabeth Howell published
The Curiosity rover might be spotting signs of the Martian climate drying up in ancient times.
!['Spikes' spotted by the Curiosity rover on May 17, 2022.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/smrBDWYJhwwDmuuoLBRBXU-320-80.jpg)
These bizarre spiky Mars rocks likely formed by erosion and ancient fractures (photo)
By Elizabeth Howell published
A long-running NASA rover imaged twisted Red Planet rock pillars.
![The "dog door" feature discovered by NASA's Curiosity rover.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9ekRArJ96mMiXACztrWEfG-320-80.jpg)
'Dog door' on Mars found by Curiosity rover is a rocky 'doorway into the ancient past,' NASA says
By Tereza Pultarova published
The strange door-like feature discovered in a martian cliff earlier this month is perfectly natural but provides a "doorway into the past", said NASA.
![Curiosity spotted "gator-backed" terrain on its path across "Greenheugh Pediment," causing mission scientists to turn the rover around.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ATjcqskFaG82RTzUB6yCEF-320-80.jpg)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover turns to avoid dangerous 'gator-back' rocks (photos)
By Samantha Mathewson published
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover unexpectedly changed its course up Mount Sharp to avoid hazardous "gator-back" terrain.
![A photo of the "mineral flower" alongside other diagenetic features on the surface of Mars captured by NASA's Curiosity rover on Feb. 25.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/SiRMDTLNDKNmhcJhWnJksh-320-80.jpg)
Curiosity rover snaps close-up of tiny 'mineral flower' on Mars
By Harry Baker published
A new image taken by the Curiosity rover reveals a tiny, flower-like mineral deposit less than half an inch wide on the Martian surface.
![NASA's Curiosity rover captured these images of clouds in the sky of Mars, on Dec. 12, 2021.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jbwwAdb9mny4SkaP93hQTo-320-80.gif)
NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars is watching the clouds drift by and they're beautiful
By Elizabeth Howell published
The clouds were so faint that NASA employed special imaging techniques to spot them.
![The wheels on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover have accumulated some damage during the robot's nine-plus years on the Red Planet, as this photo snapped by Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on Jan. 27, 2022, shows.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QXRWemrVGu8cbMCxafCfja-320-80.jpg)
Rugged Mars has taken big bites out of the Curiosity rover's wheels (photos)
By Mike Wall published
NASA's Curiosity rover has left plenty of marks on Mars over the past nine-plus years, and the Red Planet is returning the favor.
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