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A study of old data from the Curiosity rover is causing scientists to reassess their belief that Mars' relatively temperate equatorial region is devoid of water.found evidence of a high concentration of opal just below Mars' surface that is surprisingly water-rich and could be a resource for future manned missions.
Once Gabriel and his team realized there was water in the opal found in recent experiments, they decided to go back and look at archival data gathered from Curiosity's Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, or DAN spectrometer. Using a newly developed analytical method, the team independently verified the presence of opal in the halos at other fractures, meaning there could be a lot of water-rich mineraloids around the Martian equator.
Opals tend to become more crystalline and often lose some of their water content as they age , but Gabriel and his team believe the ones they've found on Mars are still water rich.
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