The core of the Red Planet may be filled with sulfur. New experiments have shown that the core of Mars formed much faster ...

Previously, sulfur had been identified on Mars. However, it was combined with ... stories like this delivered to your inbox. "Finding a field of stones made of pure sulfur is like finding an ...

Curiosity had already discovered sulfates on Mars, or salts that ... the fortuitous crushing of the sulfur rock, the team now thinks that the flat, uniform field of rocks formed where they were ...

Mars' magnetic field was once generated by its dynamo, a mechanism shaped by currents within the planet's liquid core (thought to be made of iron, sulfur, and hydrogen). The magnetic field would ...

This has fascinated scientists, as sulfur crystals have never before been seen on Mars. "Finding a field of stones made of pure sulfur is like finding an oasis in the desert," Ashwin Vasavada ...

Although scientists have come across many different types of sulfur on Mars, the discovery marks the ... Curiosity towards a brightly colored field of rocks, she said. Curiosity has been climbing ...

Scientists realized they’d found a field of pure sulfur stones after the Curiosity rover accidentally crushed one of them, exposing the crystals, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory wrote this week.

Before departing the channel in late September, Curiosity captured a last look at the sulfur stones on October 11. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this last look at a field of bright white ...

Mars’ magnetic field was once generated by its dynamo, a mechanism shaped by currents within the planet’s liquid core (thought to be made of iron, sulfur, and hydrogen). The magnetic field would have ...