Open AccessCuriosity Rover Rock Analysis Indicates Past Habitability on Mars
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2013eo120003
Subject(s) - habitability , astrobiology , mars exploration program , martian , geology , curiosity , impact crater , mars rover , mars landing , earth science , exploration of mars , planet , psychology , social psychology , physics , astrophysics
Following an analysis of a Martian rock sample that was drilled into by an instrument on board NASA's Curiosity Rover, agency and project scientists announced at a 12 March briefing that they now have evidence indicating that an area near where the rover landed in Gale Crater last August could have once supported ancient microbial life.