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New Evidence Ancient Mars Was More Earth-Like Than Thought – And Maybe Even Habitable
IFLScience· 5 days agoAncient Mars is believed to have been a wet world. It might have had a denser carbon dioxide...
A Laser Zapped the Rocks on Mars and Revealed a Long-Lost Water World
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoIt’s possible that manganese became enriched in these deposits as water percolate through soil...
We know more about the surface of Mars than about the floor of Lake Michigan. But what we do know is...
Gannett via AOL· 5 days agoAt the bottom of Lake Michigan, an underwater forest, a Russian satellite, more than 1,700...
LANL scientists say they’ve discovered potentially Earth-like environments on ancient Mars
KRQE Albuquerque via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoLOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory say they’ve discovered...
Manganese deposits on Mars’ ancient lake hint at Earth-like conditions
Interesting Engineering· 5 days agoManganese has been observed on Mars by the NASA Curiosity rover in multiple places, but a...
Mars may have been more Earth-like than we thought, discovery of oxygen-rich rocks reveals
LiveScience· 21 hours agoA collection of rocks scattered on an ancient shoreline on Mars might indicate that the Red Planet...
Ancient Mars "surprisingly" like earth, NASA rover reveals
Newsweek· 5 days agoAncient Mars may have been surprisingly similar to planet Earth, a NASA rover has revealed. Using...
Long ago, a lake on Mars might have been sprawling with microbes
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoCuriosity's discoveries have already established that the crater was at least partially flooded long...
Africa dramatically dried out 5,500 years ago – our new study may warn us of future climate tipping...
The Conversation· 13 hours agoAround five and half millenia ago, northern Africa went through a dramatic transformation. The Sahara desert expanded and grasslands, forests and lakes favoured by humans disappeared. Humans ...
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Uncovers Signs of an Earth-Like Environment on Ancient Mars
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoThe results were published on May 1 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. “It is difficult for manganese oxide to form on the surface of Mars, so we didn’t expect to find it in such ...