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Newfound rocks on Mars suggest the planet may have once sported an oxygen-rich atmosphere, making it more Earth-like and hospitable to life than previously thought.
The Curiosity Rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2015 when it landed in the Gale Crater along the planet's equator.
Curiosity Rover found manganese oxide on Mars. On Earth, it is produced in oxygen-rich environments and facilitated by microbes. So was there life on Mars?
A team of researchers, using NASA's Curiosity rover's ChemCam instrument, made a fascinating discovery on Mars within Gale Crater: higher-than-usual levels of manganese in lakebed rocks. Published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, this finding suggests that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient lake. Patrick…
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover found manganese oxide on Mars, a clue that an ancient Red Planet lake was once inhabited by microbes.