During its 15th orbit, GAMBIT Mission 4006 tested new imaging capabilities over Madison, Wisconsin; St. Louis, Missouri; and Little Rock, Arkansas.
Chandrayaan 4 aims to fetch soil and rock samples from the Moon’s south pole for scientific and technological studies.
Curiosity’s panorama shows a region with a large network of boxwork formations created by groundwater that once flowed through fractures in the rock.
Curiosity uses the Sample Analysis at Mars mini-laboratory to analyze drilled rock samples.
NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed a rock sample in 2020 that contains the widest variety of organic molecules ever found on Mars.
The rock sample analyzed by Curiosity was nicknamed Mary Anning 3.
Titan’s surface has liquid methane and ethane lakes and seas, while water behaves like rock at Titan’s temperatures.
Enceladus likely has an internal ocean that is at least partly in contact with chemically active rock.
Ganymede and Callisto may have deep internal oceans separated from rock by thick high-pressure ice layers.
The insights from NASA’s Lunar 3GPP work can support mission planning by identifying potential shadow zones on the Moon caused by craters and rock formations.
Iris Fernandes, a postdoc at the Niels Bohr Institute and science data lead for the Mani mission, developed a 2019 mathematical model that misclassified shadows as rock layers and helped motivate Mani's shadow-based approach.
The Chang'e-6 sample collection includes noritic rock fragments dated to 4.247 billion years.
ChemCam analyzed the rock named "Tiquipaya," one of the family of rocks broken by the rover wheels that exposes bright white material.
Scientists reported identifying small amounts of decane, undecane, and dodecane in a rock sample analyzed in the chemistry lab aboard NASA’s Curiosity rover in March 2025.
The Curiosity rock sample containing decane, undecane, and dodecane was collected from ancient mudstone in Gale Crater.
Decane, undecane, and dodecane were the largest organic compounds detected on Mars in the Curiosity rock sample.
Curiosity used APXS, MAHLI, and ChemCam's laser spectrometer to examine a broken white rock in the workspace.
The next Curiosity drill location is only a few centimeters away from the rock named Nevado Sajama.
Curiosity previously drilled the rock Nevado Sajama in November.
The study found that much of the Margin unit’s structure and grain-scale texture is consistent with an altered igneous rock likely formed from a large magma chamber or lava lake in Jezero crater.