The Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 10 years. Here's what we've learned.

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The Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 10 years. Here's what we've learned.
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'We're still able to do the same quality and breadth of science that we were 10 years ago, and that's pretty extraordinary.'

was habitable in the past. Through previous missions, scientists had already determined that water was once present on Mars and, in fact, is currently present on Mars in the form of ice. But water alone isn't enough to support life.

The rover's research into the rock and soil of Mars also yielded new information about groundwater cycles on Mars."All of the rocks that we've driven through show not only the signature of water when they were originally deposited, but this later overprinting of one or two or dozens of cycles of groundwater circulating through the rocks," Fraeman said.

She's also enthralled by Curiosity's study of Martian weather, noting that just last year, Curiosity photographed beautiful clouds known as Curiosity photographed noctilucent clouds, also called twilight clouds, on March 28, 2021.

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