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NASA Scientists Startled When Mars Rover Drives Over Rock, Cracking It and Revealing Glinting Crystals Within"It shouldn't be there, so now we have to explain it."NASA's Curiosity Mars rover inadvertently crushed a rock while exploring a sulfates-rich area — and revealed a treasure of glinting, yellow crystals.
"Finding a field of stones made of pure sulfur is like finding an oasis in the desert," said Curiosity project scientist Ashwin Vasavada in a The rover has been exploring the mountain for just under a decade now and has made several fascinating discoveries since. Scientists believe Gediz Vallis wasCuriosity has been exploring huge mounds of debris that such water channels — or perhaps landslides — may have deposited.
"This was not a quiet period on Mars," said Planetary Science Institute scientist and deputy principal investigator of Curiosity's Mastcam Becky Williams. "There was an exciting amount of activity here. We're looking at multiple flows down the channel, including energetic floods and boulder-rich flows."
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