Nobody planned it. The rover was just driving. One of its wheels did what a geologist's hammer would have done, and revealed ...

NASA's Curiosity rover found pure sulfur crystals inside a rock after backing over and accidentally crushing it on May 30, 2024. This is a zoomed-in photo of the crystals. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally split open a rock on Mars on May 30, 2024, exposing bright yellow crystals that turned out to be pure elemental sulfur, a material never before identified on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An accident on Mars revealed the surprising contents of an otherwise unremarkable rock. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) A rock on Mars ...

This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals, the first ever seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA's Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over a rock and crush it on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Curiosity rover found pure sulfur crystals inside a rock after backing over and accidentally crushing it on May 30, 2024.