Gypsum crystals discovered by Zhurong on roughly 760-million-year-old Martian terrain may still contain microscopic pockets of the brine they grew from — tiny sealed samples that could preserve the chemistry of liquid water from a surprisingly recent chap
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- What A Dry Meteorite Tells Us About Water On Mars Eurasia Review · 20d ago
- 🧂 Before its loss, the Zhurong rover observed very special crystals on Mars Techno-Science · 20d ago
- Minerals associated with plate tectonics found in oldest rock from Mars Live Science · 20d ago
- What a dry meteorite tells us about water on Mars Phys.org · 20d ago
- Gypsum crystals discovered by Zhurong on roughly 760-million-year-old Martian terrain may still contain microscopic pockets of the brine they grew from — tiny sealed samples that could preserve the chemistry of liquid water from a surprisingly recent chap spacedaily.com · 20d ago broke it first
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