Friday, 12 October 2012

NASA’s Mars rover makes surprising rock find

WASHINGTON, Oct 11, 2012 - A rock analyzed by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has a surprising and more varied composition that resembles rare rocks from the bowels of our planet, the US space agency said Thursday.

“This rock is a close match in chemical composition to an unusual but well-known type of igneous rock found in many volcanic provinces on Earth,”Curiosity co-investigator Edward Stolper of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena said in a statement.

“With

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