Washington, December 4 (ANI): NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil.

Washington, October 16 (ANI): NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has taken second scoop of Martian soil using its instrument - 'Collection and Handling for In-Situ Martian Rock Analysis' (CHIMRA).

Washington, October 5 (ANI): NASA's Curiosity rover is now stationed at a place on Mars where it will take its first scoop of soil for analysis.

Washington, August 9 (ANI): The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team got a digital thumbs up about the operational readiness of their instrument just hours after the rover landed on Martian soil late Sunday evening.

Washington, Apr 24 (ANI): Astrobiologists are calling for a mission to Mars with "a strong and comprehensive life detection component."

Washington, Aug 19 (ANI): Scientists had previously suggested that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 might have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.