HiRISE/Curiosity: Ready to drill for gold at the Kimberley

Black gold, that is: organic material, which could be a biomarker (sign of past life), the holy grail of Mars exploration. Last December at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, MSL Project Scientist John Grotzinger talked about what the team learned at Yellowknife Bay, and why they would stop and drill again at a place named “the Kimberley.” The mudstones at Yellowknife Bay had been exposed recently — to a geologist — less than 100 million years ago…. [More at link]