China’s Zhurong rover has found evidence for liquid water on the surface of Mars - and it probably began as snow or frost that melted into sand dunes
at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and his colleagues have found cracks, crusts and clumps of particles on top of sand dunes in the Martian plain of Utopia Planitia that can only be explained by liquid water from between 400,000 and 1.4 million years ago.“Sand dunes are a more modern landform,” says Qin. “These crusts on the dunes’ surfaces have solidified the sand dunes and stopped them moving.
”The presence of certain salts in the sand led the team to believe the water originally fell onto the sand dunes in the form of snow or frost, which later melted and mixed with the sand to form hydrated minerals. These minerals then clumped together and, once the water evaporated, were cemented in place and formed the cracked crust seen by the rover’s camera.Voyage across the galaxy and beyond with our space newsletter every month.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Modern lager arose when a beer and an ale met in a Munich brewhouseIf you like lager, chances are you’ve got a 17th century brewmaster to thank for it.
Read more »
Dow jumps 400 points Thursday, heads for best day since January: Live updatesStocks rose Thursday, as strong results from Meta Platforms boosted tech-related names, and investors weighed the latest data on the U.S. economy.
Read more »
The Lager Legacy: German Researchers Discover How a 400-Year-Old Mistake Revolutionized BeerResearchers suggest that lager beer, which now makes up around 90% of beer consumption, originated from a hybrid yeast species in Munich in 1602. This yeast, Saccharomyces pastorianus, was created when Saccharomyces cerevisiae from a Schwarzach wheat brewery contaminated a batch of beer brewed with
Read more »
Rental community with more than 400 homes under construction in PrincetonConstruction started in March on Oxenfree, a rental community with 408 single-family homes and townhomes in Princeton on more than 50 acres at 1525 FM982.
Read more »
China’s Rover May Have Found Hints of Water on Mars DunesChina’s Zhurong Mars rover has seen better days, but it did make a groundbreaking discovery.
Read more »
China finally admits its hibernating Mars rover may never wake upThe Zhurong Mars rover never woke up from a planned hibernation, and the head of the mission team has now revealed why.
Read more »