NASA's Curiosity rover discovered what it dubs an 'ancient oasis' on the red planet, featuring some very unusual salts.
NASA's Curiosity rover discovered what it dubs an"ancient oasis" on the red planet, featuring some very unusual salts.
The rocks that Curiosity found were also filled with unique mineral salts. NASA said in a statement that researchers interpret this"as evidence of shallow briny ponds that went through episodes of overflow and drying," in Mars' ancient history. "We went to Gale Crater because it preserves this unique record of a changing Mars," William Rapin, of Caltech, the lead author of a study of their findings, published Monday in Nature Geoscience paper said in a statement.
"Understanding when and how the planet's climate started evolving is a piece of another puzzle: When and how long was Mars capable of supporting microbial life at the surface?" Rapin added.
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