{"id":473922,"date":"2026-07-10T02:33:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=b01026fdd5de4da4d3513f5082f9a5c7"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:33:50","slug":"curiosity-sees-martian-sulfur-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=473922","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity Sees Martian Sulfur Up Close"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals \u2014 the first ever seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA\u2019s Curiosity Mars rover<\/a> happened to drive over a rock and crush it on May 30, 2024. Several days later, Curiosity used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to take this image.<\/p>\n

A recent paper in Science suggests that the sulfur formed when magma deep below the surface released fluids or gases that deposited sulfur on the Red Planet\u2019s surface about 3 billion years ago.<\/p>\n

Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals \u2014 the first ever seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA\u2019s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over a rock and crush it on May 30, 2024. Several days later, Curiosity used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to take [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16010,7727],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosity-rover","category-mars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t