NASA's Curiosity Mars rover begins exploring possible dried-up Red Planet river

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover begins exploring possible dried-up Red Planet river
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Rahul Rao is a graduate of New York University's SHERP and a freelance science writer, regularly covering physics, space, and infrastructure. His work has appeared in Gizmodo, Popular Science, Inverse, IEEE Spectrum, and Continuum. He enjoys riding trains for fun, and he has seen every surviving episode of Doctor Who.

continues to press on while treading the world of Mars, delving into areas no rover has gone before. The latest phase of Curiosity's adventure has brought it to what some scientists believe is the desiccated bed of an ancient river.

Originally slated for a two-year-mission, Curiosity continues to trawl the Martian surface in search of new insight into the Martian environment and life that might have once lived — or still lives — on the Red Planet. Since 2014, the rover has been ascending the foothills ofNASA's Perseverance rover confirms presence of ancient lake on Mars and it may hold clues to past life

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