Oxidation Fascination NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered rocky material that is riddled with an unusual amount of manganese, a mineral that's abundant in lakes found back on Earth. It's yet another piece of a much larger puzzle,

Manganese-rich sandstones discovered by NASA’s Curiosity rover indicate there were once habitable conditions in the Gale Crater on Mars. A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA’s Cur

Manganese was found in an ancient Mars lakebed, suggesting that the environment could have been highly useful to lifeforms.

Was Mars ever habitable by living creatures? That’s a question NASA’s Curiosity rover has been trying to determine for years. Recently, according to new evidence gathered in the Gale Crater where the rover has been exploring,

The research team looked at what oxidant could be responsible for the precipitation of manganese in the rocks on Mars.