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Martian Rock Analysis Reveals the Planet Had 'Secret Ingredient' That Was Ideal for Starting Life Planet Mars has always been ...

Mars has long been seen as a barren wasteland, but a stunning new discovery by NASA’s Perseverance rover suggests the Red ...

Rocks loafing about on the surface of Mars have been harboring secrets about the red planet's mysterious past.

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

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It's well established that Mars used to be a wet world covered in oceans, and in recent years, astronomers have uncovered not just icy remnants of this period, but entire reservoirs of liquid water ...

The presence of kaolinite, associated with minerals like spinel, raises many questions. Researchers are trying to understand how these rocks formed and what they reveal about the history of water and ...

and the mineral is quite soft. On Mars, the rocks are white but not as soft, possibly due to other processes that may have hardened the rocks. These rocks were also found to contain spinel ...

Further analysis also revealed the presence of spinel, likely an aluminum-rich type. This mineral can form in volcanic environments or through high-pressure geological processes. However, researchers ...

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