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.
Mars might not be red for the reasons we thought, UA prof’s research suggests
Vincent Chevrier, associate research professor at the University of Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences, is part of an international team of researchers arguing that Mars gets its reddish hue not from hematite, as previously thought, but from a different iron-oxide mineral called ferrihydrite.
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