Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Some Mars Minerals with Watery Past May be Relatively Young

This artist's concept shows NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission over the red planet.

Alteration of minerals by water may have been common on Mars into the second half of the planet's age, a new analysis of observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests.





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