LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Scientists at Los Alamos Nationwide Laboratory say they’ve found Earth-like environments on historical Mars. NASA’s Curiosity rover lately discovered greater than traditional quantities of Manganese on Mars craters displaying sediments the place water was once and a close-by shoreline of an historical lake.
The rover has been exploring the planet’s floor since 2012. NASA says the aim of the mission is to determine what the floor of the planet is made from and if it may assist life.
Patrick Gasda, a Los Alamos Nationwide Laboratory area scientist and lead creator of the story, says they didn’t look forward to finding Manganese oxide in such excessive concentrations. He additionally stated that on Earth, resulting from oxygen within the ambiance and that the method is up by microbes. They are saying if life was current on historical Mars, the elevated quantity of Manganese in rocks would have been an vitality supply for all times.
Gasda printed his findings within the Journal of Geophysical Analysis detailing what his workforce noticed whereas engaged on the Curiosity rover.
