Curiosity Rover

The Curiosity rover present on Mars has found several samples rich in a particular type of carbon. For the research, Scientists collected 24 samples from the Gale crater on Mars and heated it to about 850° Celsius. ''We’re looking at what else could have caused the carbon signature we’re seeing, if not life,” said Paul Mahaffy, one of the leading investigators. The Rover had landed on Mars in 2012.

Following a successful helicopter flight, NASA's perseverance rover carrying Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) has extracted 10 minutes of breathable air on Mars i.e., five grams of oxygen. MOXIE extracted oxygen atoms from CO2 molecules and its capacity is 10 grams of oxygen per hour. NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate’s associate administrator Jim Reuter vowed to create rocket propellant and breathable air… read-more

NASA has recently released a selfie that was sent by Curiosity rover from the 'Mary Anning' site of Mars, where it is conducting drilling experiments. According to NASA, Curiosity's selfie, taken on October 25, is made of "59 pictures stitched together by imaging specialists". The rover is exploring the location since July while collecting dust and rock samples which, according to the scientists, will take several months to be analyzed.