NASA's Mars rover Curiosity reaches intriguing salty site after treacherous journey

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity reaches intriguing salty site after treacherous journey
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Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science. He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics. Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.’s Open University. Follow him on Twitter @sciencef1rst.

climate changed from being similar to Earth's to the frozen, barren desert that Curiosity explores today.years before Curiosity touched down on the Martian surface in 2012. When Curiosity finally got a close-up look at the terrain of Mount Sharp, the rover discovered a diverse array of rock types and signs of past water, including popcorn-textured nodules and salty minerals such as magnesium sulfate, calcium sulfate and sodium chloride, which makes up ordinary table salt.

"As we do before every drill, we brushed away the dust and then poked the top surface of Canaima with the drill," Kathya Zamora-Garcia, Curiosity's project manager, said in a."The lack of scratch marks or indentations was an indication that it may prove difficult to drill." The team will now analyze pieces of the sample collected from Canaima using Curiosity's Chemical and Mineralogy instrument and Sample Analysis at Mars instrument.Curiosity's summer road trip

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