Stop and smell the Martian “flower” 🌸 On Feb. 24, 2022, our Curiosity Mars rover captured this image of artifacts from the Red Planet’s ancient past. Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock along with the spherical rock seen on the right were made when minerals carried by water cemented the rock. This flower is one of a bouquet of artifacts Curiosity has discovered – a diverse assortment of small features that formed when mineralizing fluids traveled through conduits in the rock. Images of these features help scientists tell the story petal-by-petal of the prolonged history of liquid in the Gale Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS #NASA #NASAJPL #Curiosity #Mars #RedPlanet #Artifacts #Flowers #SpaceRocks