You’ve probably followed the Mars rover missions on and off for years, watching those red-dust landscapes scroll across your ...

Spiderweb-shaped rock patterns on Mars may rewrite the timeline of when water disappeared from the Red Planet.

Written by Ashley Stroupe, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 This week we had three planning sessions, exploring the eastern ...

Curiosity rover’s recent activities in the Boxwork unit include detailed bedrock analysis, Mastcam mosaics, and atmospheric monitoring, advancing NASA’s ongoing investigation of Mars geology.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent roughly six months exploring a geological feature on Mars known as boxwork: a vast network of low rock ridges, about 3–6 feet (1–2 meters) tall, crisscrossing the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent about six months studying unusual geological formations called boxwork — a network of low ridges about 3–6 feet tall that crisscross the Martian surface for miles, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered tiny mineral nodules on Mars that suggest groundwater persisted on the planet much longer than previously believed, expanding the window during which microbial ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovered these bumpy, pea-sized nodules while exploring a region filled with boxwork formations—low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy ...

In this age of Mars rovers, questions about the planet's ancient past have shifted. A growing body of evidence supports the ...

The most eye-catching surprise in Curiosity’s close-ups is the nodules, small, bumpy mineral features on and around the ridges. The rover imaged pea-size nodules while exploring the boxwork region on ...

The web-like features are believed to be sculpted by ancient groundwater, offering new clues about the Red Planet's watery ...

One of the mission scientists leading the boxwork investigation, joined “Jesse Weber Live” on Thursday to discuss the revelation.