<h5>About the Curiosity Rover!</h5><p>Have you ever dreamed of travelling to another planet? While humans have long fantasised about this, we have only reached the Moon. One of the biggest goals in interplanetary travel is to Mars.</p><p>NASA has planned to send humans to Mars for years, but these plans haven’t come to fruition yet. However, instead of humans, robots are exploring the red planet, and one of them is the Curiosity Rover.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.newsahoot.com/articles/the-story-of-the-mars-rover--curiosity">Curiosity is the largest rover ever to land on another planet</a> and is as huge as a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV). Its size and weight are because it carries a laboratory inside, packed with high-tech instruments to study Mars.</p><p>Its wheels are also designed to navigate the rocky terrain of our neighbouring planet. Curiosity was launched from Earth in 2011 and reached Mars in 2012. Since then, it has been roaming the planet, helping us discover various cool facts about Mars.</p><h5>Curiosity makes an amazing discovery!</h5><figure class="image"><img alt="Sulphur.jpg" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/newsahoot.appspot.com/Sulphur_8035312990.jpg"><figcaption>The cracked rock shows sulphur inside. Photo by Curiosity Rover.</figcaption></figure><p>The Curiosity rover has made several incredible discoveries on Mars. But its recent discovery has left scientists amazed. The rover’s weight cracked open a rock, revealing yellow sulphur crystals, a first for Mars.</p><p>Since October 2023, the rover has been exploring an area of Mars rich in sulphates, which are sulphur-containing salt formed from water evaporation.</p><p>Previously, the rover had found rocks containing sulphur mixed with other materials. However, this time, it discovered a rock containing pure sulphur.</p><p>This discovery is part of Curiosity's ongoing study of the Gediz Vallis channel, a formation thought to have been caused by a river billions of years ago.</p><p>The rover also found a field of bright rocks similar to the one it cracked open. Scientists are now analysing the origin of this sulphur.</p><h5>Importance of this discovery!</h5><div class="raw-html-embed"><figure> <iframe width="100%" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1cqc_Cr_prc?list=PLTiv_XWHnOZqsp7on1ErHOTweF5eHzOTt" title="Curiosity Rover Explores Gediz Vallis Channel (360 View)" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><figcaption>An interactive video regarding the discovery. Use the arrows on the top left corner to explore the area. Video by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Sulphur is a crucial element for life, considered one of the six building blocks, along with carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and phosphorus. Together these elements make up 98% of all living matter on Earth.</p><p>The discovery of pure sulphur has reignited scientists’ curiosity about whether Mars could have once supported life and what it might have looked like.</p><p>Who knows, we might find proof in the future that Mars had a long-extinct alien civilisation. What do you think? Did aliens live on Mars? Tell us in the comments.</p>

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