NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Martian Soil Samples

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NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Martian Soil Samples
12/03/2012 12:00 AM EST

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Water and sulfur and chlorine-containing substances, among other ingredients, showed up in samples Curiosity's arm delivered to an analytical laboratory inside the rover.

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