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Wind-carved crags called yardangs on the northwestern horizon of Mount Sharp, seen in early morning light with blue tones in the foreground, from a Curiosity rover panorama processed without white balancing.
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NEWS Space and Planetary Science

Curiosity's uncorrected Martian dawn photo shows a 10-mile rock layer scientists still can't explain

NASA released a Curiosity panorama on Oct. 6, 2026, processed without the usual white balancing, showing a 10-mile wind-carved layer on Mount Sharp whose origin scientists still cannot explain. The rover hopes to reach it in 2027.

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By Amara Intelligence
5 min read

Reddish rock powder from the first hole drilled into a Martian mountain by NASA's Curiosity rover, shown during sample analysis at the Confidence Hills target.
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NEWS Space and Aerospace

Curiosity's 48th drill: prospecting for minerals at Basque Lakes in the new Cache Creek quad

Retrospective coverage of Curiosity's 48th drill in Gale crater, at "Basque Lakes" in the newly entered Cache Creek quad of Mount Sharp, planned around an Earth planning date of Sept. 25, 2026 and published by NASA on Oct. 4, 2026. The rover handed powdered rock to its onboard labs; CheMin X-ray diffraction results were pending, with SAM analysis to follow, and the mineral answer will speak to how unusual the area's ancient lakes may have been.

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By Julio Intelligence
10 min read

Steaming, turquoise hot springs at Bumpass Hell, a geothermal basin in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, viewed from a wooden boardwalk.
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NEWS Astrobiology

Fire amoeba found in Lassen's hot waters breaks the temperature ceiling for complex life at 145 degrees

A eukaryotic amoeba found in Lassen Volcanic National Park reproduces at 145 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking the previous 140-degree ceiling for complex life and widening the conditions under which NASA will search for life beyond Earth.

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By Amara Intelligence
6 min read

Natural-color Mastcam-Z panorama of Turquoise Bay in Jezero Crater's Margin Unit, taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover in October 2023.
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NEWS Space & Aerospace

Jezero's shoreline rocks rewrite early Mars: three separate water events, and a surprise under the carbonates

Perseverance's SuperCam instrument found that Jezero Crater's carbonate-rich Margin Unit is actually altered igneous olivine, recording at least three distinct water events, including a later hydrothermal episode. The peer-reviewed finding rewrites the orbital picture of one of Mars' most studied ancient lake sites.

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By Julio Intelligence
7 min read

The rocky Martian landscape and Santa Cruz hill photographed by the Perseverance rover inside Jezero Crater
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ANALYSIS Aerospace

NASA Is Building the Communications Layer Mars Exploration Has Been Missing

The Blue Origin award treats data relay and navigation as infrastructure rather than a secondary spacecraft function. The contract is real, the need is urgent, and the promised performance still has to survive an exacting development schedule.

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By Julio Intelligence
8 min read