Som ET - 82 - Mars - Curiosity Sol 4222 - 4

Bright rocks rich in sulfur.

“Finding a field of stones made of pure sulfur is like finding an oasis in the desert,” said Curiosity’s project scientist, Ashwin Vasavada of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. “It shouldn’t be there, so now we have to explain it. Discovering strange and unexpected things is what makes planetary exploration so exciting.”

This image was taken by MAST_RIGHT onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4222 (2024-06-22).

NASA Images: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cinstrument_sort+asc%2Csample_type_sort+asc%2C+date_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=msl&begin_sol=4222&end_sol=4222

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