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NASA's Curiosity rover heads to new puzzling Martian destination
They call it a "boxwork" region.
The Mini Cooper-sized robotic lab will study an unusual landscape, called a "boxwork," that likely necessitated warm groundwater to form eons ago on the Red Planet. At its most recent site, known as Gediz Vallis, the rover literally stumbled upon pure sulfur, its wheels crushing the material to expose a bed of yellow crystals. "We don't think we're anywhere near a volcano where the rover is," Abigail Fraeman, deputy project scientist on the Curiosity mission, told Mashable in September, "so that is a puzzling feature to find in this particular location."
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