New Research Reveals Water-Rich Mineral May Explain Mars' Red Color
- Mars' red color comes from ferrihydrite, an iron oxide that forms with water, challenging previous beliefs it was due to hematite.
- The study, published in Nature Communications, indicates Mars had wet conditions in its early history, contradicting the notion of a completely dry planet.
- The presence of ferrihydrite suggests conditions required for water and oxygen interaction with iron.
- NASA emphasized the study's implications for understanding Mars' potentially habitable past and the need for continued research on the planet.
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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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Read Full ArticleMars 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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