"These were very different, co-existing environments in the same lake," said Joel Hurowitz of Stony Brook University in the US.

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New York, Sep 13 (IANS) NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has sent back spectacular colour images of layered rock formations on the Red Planet.

The new images represent Curiosity's last stop in the Murray Buttes, where the rover has been driving for just over one month.

The image was acquired by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on as the rover neared on lower Mount Sharp on Mars, during the afternoon of the missio...

The game also illustrates how NASA's next Mars rover will use radar to search for underground water.

Adding to the puzzle, some silica at one rock Curiosity drilled, called "Buckskin," is in a mineral named tridymite, rare on Earth and neve...

Mars harboured long-lasting lakes and water streams about 3.8 to 3.3 billion years ago, boosting the odds that life may have once existed o...

"Some of them look like ice-cream sandwiches: dark on both edges and white in the middle," said Linda Kah, a Curiosity science-team member ...

The American space agency said Mars's Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years.

Exposed layers on the lower portion of Mount Sharp are expected to hold evidence about dramatic changes in the environmental evolution of M...

Much of Curiosity's first year on Mars was spent investigating outcrops in a low area of Gale Crater called "Yellowknife Bay".

After more than two years of touching down on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover has finally reached the foothills of Mount Sharp, the primary de...

NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity may have to find a new route to its destination Mount Sharp after getting stuck in sand in the "Hidden Valley".