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July 24, 2015

Curiosity Rover Inspects Unusual Bedrock
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 24, 2015
Approaching the third anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has found a target unlike anything it has studied before - bedrock with surprisingly high levels of silica. Silica is a rock-forming compound containing silicon and oxygen, commonly found on Earth as quartz. This area lies just downhill from a geological contact zone the rover has been studying near "Marias Pass" on lower Mount Sharp. In fact, the Curiosity team decided to back up the rover 46 meters (151 f ... read more

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