Everyone’s favorite little machine, the NASA Curiosity rover is now exploring a huge crater which the scientists believe to have been a huge lake a long time ago. The scientists have named the huge crater Mount Sharp and is a three-mile high pile of layered debris which rises from the floor of another crater named Gale Crater. The NASA experts believe this crater was formed many billions of … [Read more...]
NASA ‘Curiosity’ Rover Takes its First Bite Out of Mars
NASA wants to understand what happened to the Red Planet. Mars was once a wet and warm. How could it turn so cold and dry? For this purpose it has sent the rover, Curiosity, to drill the first sample-collection hole into Mount Sharp. NASA declared in a statement that the rover's hammering drill chewed approximately 2.6 inches into the basal-layer to collect powdered-rock sample. This was last … [Read more...]