Curiosity ready to drill on Mars

Curiosity ready to drill on Mars

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers’ approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it will become the first to be...
Curiosity probes Snake River

Curiosity probes Snake River

NASA’s Mars rover has moved to within arm’s reach of a sinuous rock feature called “Snake River”,  a thin curving line of darker rock cutting through flatter rocks and jutting above sand. Curiosity’s science team plans to get a closer look at...