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NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has, for the first time, detected tiny quartz-like crystals sprinkled in young...
This March 18, 2015, view from the Mast Camera on NASA Curiosity Mars rover shows a network of two-tone mineral...
Thick stacks of clay minerals indicate chemical alteration of thick stacks of rock by interaction with liquid water...
NASA rover Opportunity takes a look at Matijevic Hill, an area within the Cape York segment of Endeavour rim where...
This image shows infrared views of two craters,Bellicia left and Arruntia right, at the giant asteroid Vesta that...
This false color image from NASA rover Opportunity takes a look at Matijevic Hill, an area within the Cape York...
On this image of the rock target Knorr, color coding maps the amount of mineral hydration indicated by a ratio of...
The colorful rocks exposed in the central peak visible in this image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter probably...
This color view from NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity of a mineral vein called Homestake and is found to be...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows Nili Fossae region of Mars, one of the largest exposures of...
On this image of the broken rock called Tintina, color coding maps the amount of mineral hydration indicated by a...
The semi-precious gem peridot is a variety of olivine. NASA Curiosity rover shows the diffraction signature, or...
NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity inspected this mineral vein, called Homestake, in November 2011 at the...
Sulfates are found overlying clay minerals in sediments within Columbus Crater, a depression that likely hosted a...
This artist concept shows microscopic crystals in the dusty disk surrounding a brown dwarf, or failed star. The...
NASA Galileo spacecraft, which was used to map the mineral and ice properties over the surfaces of the Jovian moons,...
The Kondyor Massif is located in Eastern Siberia, Russia, north of the city of Khabarovsk. It is a rare form of...
This view of layered rocks on the floor of McLaughlin Crater shows sedimentary rocks that contain spectroscopic...
NASA Terra spacecraft acquired this image of Dawson, Canada. A boom town in 1898, discovery of gold in the Klondike...
The colorful rocks exposed in the central peak visible in this image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter probably...
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Mineral, Va. was widely felt up and down the East Coast of the United States. This...
This image from NASA Mar Reconnaissance Orbiter combines a photograph of seasonal dark flows on a Martian slope at...
Lengthy detective work from data collected by NASA rover Spirit confirmed that an outcrop called Comanche contains a...
This image taken at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows the Moessbauer spectrometer, an instrument on NASA Mars...