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After almost 12 years probing Mars, the Curiosity rover is still making discoveries that have scientists, well, curious.

Could mud cracks have meant seasonal climate patterns on the Red Planet?

Mars may have seen dry and wet season cycles and thus, may have been habitable at some point in its past, according to scientists.

Mars may have seen dry and wet season cycles and thus, may have been habitable at some point in its past, according to scientists.

New observations of mud cracks made by the Curiosity Rover show that high-frequency, wet-dry cycling occurred in early Martian surface environments, indicating that the red planet may have once seen seasonal weather patterns or even flash floods.

Organisms on Earth produce a wide array of durable “biofluorescent” materials. If those on other planets do, too, the Compact Color Biofinder should be able to detect them

Mars, the Wet Planet?OK, scientists probably are not going to hang that handle on the fourth rock from the sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System now. But if they had been around 3.5 billion years ago, they might have considered it.