Curiosity Blog, Sols 5016–5021: Fantastic Minerals and How To Detect Them

Curiosity Blog, Sols 5016–5021: Fantastic Minerals and How To Detect Them

Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 Curiosity surprised us at the beginning of the week with a change in rock texture — instead of the finely layered bedrock blocks we’ve been seeing in our recent sulfate unit workspaces, suddenly we were looking […]

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