Tag: rover

Chinese Moon Lander Appears to Be Carrying Secret Lunar Rover

Mini Surprise China is set to become the first country to ever return samples from the far side of the Moon. Apart from collecting rocks and dust, the mission — dubbed Chang’e-6 — is carrying an even more interesting piece of equipment: a previously undisclosed lunar rover, SpaceNews reports. Eagle-eyed space reporter Andrew Jones spotted what […]

Jack Grealish landed with £1,042 bill after admitting speeding in Range Rover

England midfielder Jack Grealish has been fined £666 (€774) and handed five penalty points after being caught speeding at 44mph in a 30mph zone. Grealish did not attend a four-minute hearing at Worcester Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, but pleaded guilty through his lawyer. The 28-year-old, of Barnt Green, Worcestershire, was also ordered to pay £110 […]

Mars Loaded With Mineral Closely Associated With Life, NASA Rover Finds

Oxidation Fascination NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has discovered rocky material that’s riddled with an unusual amount of manganese, a mineral that’s abundant in lakes found back on Earth and closely associated with microbial life. It’s yet another piece of a much larger puzzle, increasingly suggesting that Mars’ Gale Crater, which scientists suspect to be an ancient […]

Curiosity rover may be ‘burping’ methane out of Mars’ subsurface

Since 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane on Mars, specifically near its landing site inside the 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater. But that Mars methane is behaving erratically. It only appears at night, it fluctuates seasonally and it spikes unexpectedly to levels 40 times higher than usual. To make things more puzzling, the […]

Move over, Rover. Foxes were once humans’ best friends

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. In an ancient grave in what’s now northwestern Argentina, a person was buried with a canine companion — but this animal friend wasn’t a dog, according to new research. The burial held the skeleton of a […]