NASA's Curiosity rover has climbed 1 km up Mount Sharp, by NASA's count the most elevation gained on Mars. Arm work on the wind-carved yardang cliffs ahead, the study meant to show how they formed, is hoped for in 2027.
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Curiosity drills its 48th Gale crater rock in the newly entered Cache Creek quad
Curiosity has drilled its 48th Gale crater rock, a target called Basque Lakes, in the newly entered Cache Creek quad. A weekend X-ray diffraction run will give the first mineral data on how this rock formed and was later altered.
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Curiosity's layered sulfate bedrock gives way to blocks covered in disc-shaped lumps
Curiosity's team planned four chemistry readings on blocks covered in disc-shaped lumps, a texture Earth rocks can show where evaporating fluid left minerals. Settling whether that happened on Mars will likely take the rover's next drill sample and its CheMin instrument.
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Jezero's Margin Unit proves to be igneous rock that water altered at least three times
Perseverance's SuperCam survey of more than 185 targets shows Jezero's Margin Unit is magma-formed olivine rock that met water at least three times. Groundwater and later hot fluids joined the crater lake in reworking it, so its carbonate is a harder record to read.
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Perseverance traces three separate water episodes through Jezero's igneous shoreline rock
Orbiters read the carbonate at Jezero's margin as lake chemistry; Perseverance found volcanic rock that water altered at least three times, in a sequence the team can order but cannot date.
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Hokkaido team raises Mercury's measured contraction to 11.6 km after correcting for rough terrain
Shortening structures turn up more often on smooth ground than on rough. Correcting for that detection bias raises Mercury's radial contraction from 8.3 to 11.6 kilometres, and the authors say even that is probably low.
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Mercury's lumpiest terrain carries the fewest shrinkage wrinkles, which the authors read as impact debris burying the record. Correct for that and total contraction rises to as much as 23 km, with the thermal models still to be redone.
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