Mars is Rocked By Powerful Quakes That Don't Always Begin Under The Surface, Research Shows
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Mars Is Rocked by Epic Quakes, And They Don't All Come From Within
"This has far-reaching implications."
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The most enthralling rock yet found on Mars—a speckled hunk of mudstone that may contain evidence of ancient alien life👽🌌—is still worth getting excited about. Teased last year in a preliminary announcement from NASA🚀, that’s the official conclusion of a peer-reviewed paper📄, published today in Nature.
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Scientific American
Is There Life on Mars? This Rock May Hold the Answer
The Perseverance rover’s new findings set the stage for bringing Martian samples back to Earth to test whether microbes once inhabited the Red Planet
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Strange, sinuous gullies etched into the dunes of Mars 🌌 are finally giving up their secrets. These gouges, new experiments reveal, are carved by the explosive sublimation of dry ice ❄️, burrowing down the slopes like a mole 🐾 and blasting away sand as it goes.
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Experiment Reveals What Is Truly Burrowing Beneath Mars's Dunes Each Spring
"It felt like I was watching the sandworms in the film Dune.”
In recordings obtained by NASA's Perseverance rover, scientists have identified, for the first time, lightning ⚡️ captured during Mars's wild dust events 🌪️ and whirling dust devils 🌪️ – not once, but 55 times over two Martian years of observation.
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NASA Recorded Lightning Crackling on Mars For The First Time
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Findings suggest red planet was warmer, wetter billions of years ago 🌍💧 - Evidence of rain-driven climate on Mars found in bleached rocks scattered in Jezero crater 🪐🪨
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Findings suggest red planet was warmer, wetter billions of years ago
Purdue-led research into scattered rocks found by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows evidence the dry, dusty red planet could have once supported a humid, rain-heavy climate billions of years ago.
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ExoMars: A Stress Test for the Search for Life - The ESA Mars rover Rosalind Franklin is scheduled to analyze soil samples on Mars in 2030. Researchers have successfully prepared for this mission through laboratory analyses of meteorites Read Full Article…
🚀 ESA's Rosalind Franklin Rover to Search for Life on Mars Starting 2030. The mission will analyze soil samples, focusing on the chirality of organic molecules to identify traces of past life.
🧪 Breakthrough in Analyzing Organic Molecules. Researchers successfully tested an instrument's ability to distinguish between different chiral forms of pristane and phytane in meteorite samples, a key step for detecting biosignatures.
🌍 Meteorite Contamination Alert. Tests revealed that fossil fuel remnants in Earth's atmosphere have measurably altered meteorite samples, highlighting the impact of pollution on scientific analysis.
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🧪 Breakthrough in Analyzing Organic Molecules. Researchers successfully tested an instrument's ability to distinguish between different chiral forms of pristane and phytane in meteorite samples, a key step for detecting biosignatures.
🌍 Meteorite Contamination Alert. Tests revealed that fossil fuel remnants in Earth's atmosphere have measurably altered meteorite samples, highlighting the impact of pollution on scientific analysis.
#ExoMars #MarsExploration #Astrobiology