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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has come across a fascinating hexagonal pattern in salt deposits that looks eerily familiar.

Mud Season

Okay, that's fascinating.

Scientists Intrigued by Hexagonal Pattern on Surface of Mars

As part of a Mars cloud survey, NASA's Curiosity rover imaged spectacular crepuscular rays for the first time during an especially painterly sunset.

Twilight Beauty

A thing of beauty.

NASA Rover Snaps Amazing View of Sunset on Mars

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has made yet another astonishing discovery: "the mission's clearest evidence yet" of "ancient water ripples."

Like Ripples in the Sand

"This is the best evidence of water and waves that we’ve seen in the entire mission."

NASA Rover Finds What Appears to Be Ancient Water Ripple on Mars

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has stumbled across yet another fascinating discovery while exploring the planet's barren surface, an iron-nickel meteorite.

Heavy Metal

Okay, that's pretty awesome.

NASA Mars Rover Finds Metallic Object That Smashed Down on Surface

Scientists believe to have discovered a massive cache of precious gemstones on the surface of Mars in the form of opals.

A Sip of Opal

Would bling made of these be the biggest flex in the solar system?

NASA Discovers Precious Gemstones on Mars

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover celebrated a decade on the Red Planet on Friday with an art poster. New missions and helicopters are in the Red Planet's future.

A Decade

Stay curious.

NASA's Curiosity Rover Celebrates 10th Anniversary

While examining eight-year-old data from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, scientists have made a tantalizing new discovery.

Carbon-Based

Was Mars once teeming with life?

NASA Rover Finds New Potential Evidence for Ancient Life on Mars

Now, we get to see Curiosity's next fascinating discovery: two ancient "spikes" of cemented rock that almost look like the petrified remains of ancient trees.

Piqued Curiosity

What the heck are those?

NASA Rover Spots Extremely Weird Spikes on Mars

Despite having landed on Mars almost a decade ago, NASA's Curiosity rover is still leading to fascinating new discoveries — and the latest is a real doozy.

Mars Farts

NASA's Curiosity rover is still discovering "tantalizingly interesting" things on Mars.

Scientists Extremely Intrigued by Possible Sign of Life on Mars

NASA has shared a brand new selfie its Curiosity Mars rover took late last month — and it's a real doozy.

Zoom Out

That's a lot of Mars in one picture.

NASA Rover's New Selfie Will Make You Feel Like You're on Mars, and Maybe a Little Drunk

A team of researchers successfully tested a sample of Martian dirt by directing NASA's Curiosity rover to mix it with chemical reagents inside a cup.

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