Feb 21, 2013 · NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has photographed a shiny, metallic-looking object that bears a passing resemblance to a door handle or a hood ornament.

Mar 31, 2025 · Once again, Mars has presented us with an example of something it seems to have in abundance: extremely peculiar and baffling rocks. As the Perseverance rover trundled about Broom Point, on the lower slopes of Witch Hazel Hill on the rim of Jezero Crater, it came across a rock that looks all bubbly and weird, like a deposition of frogspawn.It consists of hundreds of tiny dark gray spherules ...

Feb 12, 2013 · Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so...

Oct 17, 2012 · After NASA shunted the rover debris aside and went back for another stab at digging into the red planet, they found something unexpected: more shiny things. At first, New Scientist reports,...

But the Curiosity is not going quietly into the night, letting its new brother steal all the attention — the seven-year-old Rover has detected a “shiny” object which may indeed be a meteorite. The Curiosity Rover made a shiny discovery this week on Mars. Picture: NASA.

Nov 29, 2018 · NASA has spotted bright and shiny objects on Mars before. An odd bright piece seen by Curiosity in 2012 turned out to likely be a small plastic part from the rover.

1 day ago · NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of the “St. Pauls Bay” target (the dark-toned float block in the right of the view) using its Left Mastcam-Z camera, one of a pair of cameras located high on the rover’s remote-sensing mast. Perseverance acquired this image on March 13, 2025 — sol 1444, or Martian day 1,444 of the ...

Feb 5, 2013 · The Curiosity Mars rover has found some strange-looking little things on Mars – you’ve likely heard of the Mars ‘flower,’ the piece of benign plastic from the rover itself, and other bright...

Apr 7, 2025 · As the Mars rover Perseverance crested the top of Witch Hazel Hill, its operators back on Earth expected amazing things. This area on the western rim of the Jezero crater, along an ancient river ...

Mar 25, 2025 · NASA scientists were recently “astonished” by an unusual discovery made by the Perseverance rover involving a series of dark gray spheres on Mars, whose origin remains unclear.. The spherical objects were found within an unusual rock discovered by Perseverance at Broom Point, located on the rim of Jezero crater, which the robotic rover has been exploring since it arrived on Mars in ...