NASA’s Curiosity rover has made a surprising discovery on Mars. For the first time, it found yellow-green crystals made of sulfur. The discovery was unexpected as Curiosity stumbled upon the crystals accidentally.
The rover cracked open a rock while driving, revealing these rare stones. Since October 2023, Curiosity has been exploring a region on Mars known to have sulfates, which are salts formed when sulfur mixes with other minerals in water. However, finding pure sulfur is a first for scientists.
Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity’s project scientist, said, “It shouldn’t be there, so now we have to explain it. Discovering strange and unexpected things is what makes planetary exploration so exciting.”
Curiosity made this discovery while climbing Mount Sharp, a three-mile-tall mountain on Mars. The rover has been exploring this mountain since 2014. Each layer of Mount Sharp tells a different story of Martian history.
The mission of the Curiosity rover is to study ancient Martian terrain and find out if Mars could have supported microbial life in the past. The rover landed on Mars on August 6, 2012, and has since made many important discoveries, including taking the first selfie on Mars!
Curiosity can take pictures, collect samples, and study the Martian surface. It then sends the information back to scientists on Earth. This latest discovery adds to the exciting journey of exploring Mars and searching for signs of life.
very interesting
I loved reading it because, I never knew that maybe chocolate might be gone in the future!
save the chocolate…
I enjoyed this reading because
it show what climate changes does!!
they might have to move most chocolate into a colder place, since the climate clock is getting low
so temperature might get higher.
i love chocolate
I’m allergic to dairy, but this makes me sad for my best friends all around NZ (don’t think it’s weird because I actually do). And my chocolate loving cousin, her name is Dana (I’m from South Korea and she told me how to spell her name in Korean but its not pronounced like Dana).
I know that there are chocolate lovers around the world so, poor them or if you like chocolate poor you (even though I’m allergic to dairy, or to make it easy dairy products: cheese, milk, butter etc).