Abstract The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover arrived at Mars in August 2012 with a
primary goal of characterizing the habitability of ancient and modern environments. Curiosity …

Scheduled to land in August of 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mission was
initiated to explore the habitability of Mars. This includes both modern environments as well …

The geological units on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars, are part of a wider regional
stratigraphy of olivine-rich rocks, which extends well beyond the crater. We investigated the …

INTRODUCTION The primary goal of NASA's Curiosity rover mission is to explore and
quantitatively assess a local region on Mars' surface as a potential habitat for past or present …

The Wet Chemistry Laboratory on the Phoenix Mars Lander performed aqueous chemical
analyses of martian soil from the polygon-patterned northern plains of the Vastitas Borealis …

Clay minerals provide indicators of the evolution of aqueous conditions and possible
habitats for life on ancient Mars. Analyses by the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity …

Mars' sedimentary rock record preserves information on geological (and potential
astrobiological) processes that occurred on the planet billions of years ago. The Curiosity …

We report data on the martian meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, which shares some
petrologic and geochemical characteristics with known martian meteorites of the SNC (ie …

The Rocknest aeolian deposit is similar to aeolian features analyzed by the Mars
Exploration Rovers (MERs) Spirit and Opportunity. The fraction of sand< 150 micrometers in …

Sedimentary rocks examined by the Curiosity rover at Yellowknife Bay, Mars, were derived
from sources that evolved from an approximately average martian crustal composition to one …