The ripples suggest that the lake was free of ice at one point.

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

For example, the rover on the float is leaving ... a rainbow-colored path above Earth, past Mars and Saturn and towards the stars. Built by the Phoenix Decorating Company, the float was adorned ...

Red-and-green-tinted clouds drift through the Martian sky in a new set of images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover using its ...

New images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover's Mastcam, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the rover's ...