NASA’s Curiosity rover is providing critical insights into what Mars may have been like long ago, and one of its latest discoveries helps support the idea that the Red Planet was one very blue. Scientists believe that Mars was once a fairly wet place and, just like here on Earth, we can find evidence of that watery past in the now-dry surface.
Curiosity is currently exploring an area of Mars nicknamed the “clay-bearing unit,” and, in a new blog post by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, researchers reveal just how accurate that label is. The rover, which is equipped with a drill that allows it to sample rocks and analyze the material hiding within, just collected its two most clay-rich samples to date, suggesting that the area may have been an ancient lake long ago.
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