By Stephen Ornes
October 18, 2012
-pic from website
As I was reading through the
articles on a page, I came across one, read the title, and realized it was
relating to something I had already written. The robot curiosity, was sent to
Mars in August, to search for any organisms or signs of there being once a
life. This robot seems to have landed right in the middle of a former stream. Having
found evidence of water is no surprise, it has been found already, however how
the water got there is still unclear, could there have been ice? canyon?
“Curiosity
had been analyzing nearby rocks. These supplied the new evidence that water
once flowed through the crater. The rover found rocks called conglomerates,
which form when pebbles and sand get stuck together with wet sediment. That
sediment is the solid material that settles at the bottom of a river or stream.
Curiosity has found conglomerates at two sites so far. At the second site, the
conglomerate rocks were about the size of plain M&M’s.”
It
is impressive that Curiosity has already found this evidence in such time,
however this is only the beginning, hopefully more evidence might come up.
I
didn’t find this article special or anything, I just thought it would be cool
to read what curiosity had found.
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