Mars’s floor, photographed by NASA’s perseverance rover
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The pure quartz crystals have been seen on Mars for the primary time, in addition to different gems as opal. Researchers say that these crystals, along with being proof of previous hydrothermal exercise, may comprise effectively -preserved indicators of historic Martian life.
Because it arrived in Mars in 2020, NASA’s perseverance rover has been touring the underside of the Jezero crater, an unlimited outdated lake in all probability fashioned by an asteroid impression. However final yr, the rover left the underside of the lake and commenced to climb the sting of the crater, the place the rocks …