This March 18, 2015, view from the Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a network of two-tone mineral veins at an area called "Garden City" on lower Mount Sharp. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
What a contrast the rover is to the Viking landers of the seventies. Back then, an ambulatory Martian could have walked by the lander and we’d have never known about it due to Viking’s lack of photographic sophistication. Being able to roam and envision on-the-ground Mars is one of western civ’s greatest accomplishments to date.
Four full paragraphs and not a damn word about what minerals the “jackpot” is. I’m getting sick of these articles where the title is nothing but hype. All designed to get you to click the link and get you to spend enough time there for a gang of popup adds to explode across the page or in the margins.
Crap.
I wonder how intense the effort to travel to Mars would become it there were found to be large veins of gold and silver upon it?
Clearly the ruins of Atlantis...
So that's where they come from ...