The first rock that scientists analyzed on Mars with a pair of chemical instruments aboard the Curiosity rover turned out to be a doozy — a pyramid-shaped volcanic rock called a “mugearite” that is unlike any other Martian igneous rock ever found.
The first rock that scientists analyzed on Mars with a pair of chemical instruments aboard the Curiosity rover turned out to be a doozy — a pyramid-shaped volcanic rock called a “mugearite” that is unlike any other Martian igneous rock ever found.