The significant amount of undisturbed layers of rock is one specific reason ... Rather than those clay minerals, researchers discovered mudstone rich in iron oxide. The iron oxide is what gives ...

The surprising discovery doesn't make it any less likely that scientists will find life on the Red Planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Last week, the rover's science team announced that analysis of powder from a drilled mudstone rock on Mars ... hydration of minerals near the clay-bearing rock than at locations Curiosity visited ...

It came from "Cumberland," the second rock Curiosity drilled ... where you find smectites on Earth." Clay mineral structure similar to slays observed in mudstone on Mars (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Now, new research based on an old rock sample has revealed the largest ... Back in 2013, NASA’s Curiosity rover drilled into a patch of Martian mudstone known as "Cumberland," located in the ...

Deep below one of the UK’s oldest national parks, a 350 ton boring machine chews into mudstone rock. Traveling about 2 meters a day, the giant mechanical mole is digging Europe’s deepest mine ...