When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Curiosity rover discovered what looks like coral on Mars. | Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA’s Curiosity rover has sent back intriguing images of what looks like a piece of coral on Mars. The strange object is in fact a small, light-colored, …
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Every now and then, one of the robots on Mars sends back a picture of an unusual rock it has found on its journeys. After all, that’s one of the reasons we sent them there. These can range from the interesting (such as the donut-shaped rock which may not be from the planet) to the silly (hello, avocado rock. What’s …
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NASA‘s Curiosity rover has sent back intriguing images of what looks like a piece of coral on Mars. The strange object is in fact a small, light-colored, wind-eroded rock, which the rover found inside the Red Planet’s Gale Crater on July 24 — but it looks remarkably similar to the reef-building creatures found in Earth’s oceans. A black and white …
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Thirteen years into its mission, NASA’s Curiosity rover is still uncovering Martian mysteries — and learning to do more with less. Since landing in Gale Crater in 2012, Curiosity has traveled more than 22 miles (35 kilometers), studying rock layers, analyzing soil and revealing Mars’ ancient past, including signs that the planet once harbored liquid water, a thicker atmosphere and …
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), a camera on the end of its robotic arm, to view this wind-eroded rock shaped like a piece of coral on July 24, 2025, the 4,608th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Nicknamed “Paposo” by the rover’s science team, the rock was about 2 inches (5 centimeters) from …
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The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its biggest annual drop in live coral in two out of three areas monitored by scientists since 1986, a new report has revealed. The Australian Institute of Marine Science (Aims) report is the first to comprehensively document the devastating impacts of the early 2024 mass coral bleaching event – the most widespread and severe …
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Intel’s CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, made some interesting comments after the recent earnings call, regarding upcoming Nova Lake CPUs, Coral Rapids server CPUs with SMT-enabled P-Cores, and a word on its GPU strategy. Intel Changing Its Execution Plans: SMT Coming Back To P-Cores With Coral Rapids Server CPUs, Nova Lake For Consumers Later Next Year As of a few hours ago, …
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