NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree view of an expanse of terrain covered in surface features called polygons on June 19 and 20, 2026, the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days or sols of the mission. The rover has found polygons several times in the past, but never so many in one place. In the
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this sand-covered hill, nicknamed “Miraflores,” estimated to be about 20 feet (6 meters) high, with its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on June 11, 2026, the 4,923rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The hill was left behind when the surrounding rock eroded over time, deepening the wide valley Curiosity
The team behind “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” took the stage at 92NY in New York on Tuesday to delve into what fans can expect from season 4 of the Paramount+ series. Series stars Anson Mount (Captain Pike), Celia Rose Gooding (Ensign Uhura), Melissa Navia (Lieutenant Ortegas) and Carol Kane (Comandante Pelia) were joined by
Billions of years ago, an hours-long Martian sand storm blew so intensely that waves of sand began to climb over each other as they moved across the surface. These layers of sediment eventually hardened into the multi-layered rocks seen in this image, which was taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover on December 12, 2024, the 4,391st
This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals, the first seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover passed over and crushed a rock on May 30, 2024. Several days later, Curiosity used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to take this image. A recent paper