Mars

Sometimes we wonder if life on Mars could ever be a real possibility. NASA is exploring that idea and asking for public input. The organization is doing this through a competition called the In Situ (in place) Resource Utilization Challenge. It enables anyone to speculate on how to make use of Martian resources. The Challenge Website …

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered evidence of a continental crust similar to Earth’s on Mars. A paper published in Nature Geoscience documented the analysis of around 20 rock samples; many of the rocks in the Gale Crater, Curiosity’s landing site, were found to have a similar composition to rocks found in Earth’s continental crust. Though further study …