New Research Reveals Water-Rich Mineral May Explain Mars' Red Color
- Mars is still referred to as the Red Planet, according to Adomas Valantinas, a lead study author at Brown University.
- New analysis has discovered that the type of iron oxide causing Mars's red appearance is ferrihydrite, which contains water and forms quickly in cool water.
- This suggests that ancient Mars had an environment where liquid water was present, essential for life.
- Verification of these findings awaits samples being collected by NASA's Perseverance rover.
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Ancient Martian Beaches Detected by Chinese Rover
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Ground-penetrating radar data obtained by China’s Zhurong rover has revealed buried beneath the Martian surface evidence of what look like sandy beaches from the shoreline of a large ocean that may have existed long ago on the northern plains of Mars.
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