A team of researchers from Tohoku University, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), and Cambridge ...

In late May 2024, the Curiosity rover drove over a rock and cracked it open, revealing yellow crystals of pure sulfur inside. While scientists have seen sulfur on Mars before, it was always bound ...

Science instruments on the rover confirmed the stone was pure sulfur — something no mission has seen before on Mars. The team doesn’t have a ready explanation for why the sulfur formed there; ...

More NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Curiosity's instruments confirmed these were pure sulfur, a material typically associated with volcanic or hydrothermal activity on Earth. However, no evidence of such ...

At its most recent site, known as Gediz Vallis, the rover literally stumbled upon pure sulfur, its wheels crushing the material to expose a bed of yellow crystals. It turns out there was a whole ...

The Curiosity rover, which has been climbing a mountain of layered rock, literally stumbled upon pure sulfur, its wheels crushing the material to expose a bed of yellow crystals. It turns out ...

Yellow sulfur crystals captured by a camera onboard the Curiosity Rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover ran over a rock, which cracked open to reveal pure sulfur crystals.

The crushed material revealed yellow crystals of sulfur in its pure elemental form—a first-ever discovery on Mars. The accidental find, which was caused by the heft of the car-sized, one-ton ...

NASA's Curiosity rover uncovered a startling find on Mars: pure sulfur crystals in the Gediz Vallis channel, marking a significant discovery beyond previously known combinations with other minerals.

The find marks a rare event in planetary exploration. Nasa's Curiosity rover finds pure sulfur in Martian rocks (Photo: Nasa) The discovery of pure sulphur, which forms under specific conditions ...