Skip to main content

Rubies on Mars?

Written by Roger C. Wiens, SuperCam Principal Investigator for NASA’s Perseverance rover at Purdue University Nov. 4, 2026 Exploration on Mars turns up the unexpected. Perseverance is equipped with a fantastic set of instruments for studying the rock record of this ancient planet. Both PIXL and SuperCam have great capabilities for detecting all kinds of […] The post Rubies on Mars? appeared first…

science.nasa.gov ·31m ago

Rubies on Mars?

We haven't written up this one. NASA Science has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at science.nasa.gov →

More in Science

Newest Sample, Oldest Rock?

Written by Tasha Coelho, Mastcam-Z Student Collaborator at Arizona State University Nov. 1, 2026 Perseverance’s most recent abrasion “Pumbe” bears a striking resemblance to an earlier abrasion…

32m ago ·science.nasa.gov

New perovskite system extends room-temperature spin polarization via successive quantum wells

A research team led by Lu Haipeng, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), has achieved a breakthrough in preserving spin information…

38m ago ·phys.org

Computer science researcher reroutes truckloads of excess food from landfills to food pantries

The planet already grows enough food to feed everyone. The problem is one of logistics. A third of all the food grown and raised goes to waste, meaning that one in 12 people does not have enough to…

38m ago ·phys.org

Expressive writing may help reduce negative alcohol-related consequences among people prone to heavy drinking

Writing about a drinking experience that went badly and associated feelings of guilt was linked to reduced negative alcohol-related consequences over the next year in a trial involving college…

28m ago ·medicalxpress.com

Upgraded microscope can now watch individual quantum particles in motion

Energy can be carried in a number of ways: by electrons, the particles that underpin all modern electronics, as well as by quasiparticles, the results of different particles interacting with one…

28m ago ·phys.org

A stellar odd couple at an unusual stage of evolution

Most of the stars in the Milky Way are what we might call normal stars. They're main sequence stars like our sun, meaning they're doing what most people probably think stars do: shining as they fuse…

18m ago ·phys.org

More from Monday 9 November →