Fancy a holiday to Mars? New data offers fresh evidence that the Red Planet once had water and even beaches.
That was billions of years ago, but it still sounds promising 🚀😂
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That was billions of years ago, but it still sounds promising 🚀😂
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#space #mars #china #usa
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00:00Now Mars is known as the red planet, but new data suggests. There's a better name the rusty planet
00:07Scientists believe Mars is red because of rust they say there's iron in
00:13The rocks that iron apparently mixed with water and oxygen in one form or another
00:19This combination can create hydrated iron oxide
00:23Which is essentially rust the experts believe this rusty material broke down into dust over
00:30billions of years
00:32Powerful winds then spread it across the planet now the presence of water suggests Mars may have supported life at
00:40Some stage but scientists have never been sure if the rust was created by water on the surface or by moisture in the sky
00:48Above Mars they've now been able to relocate the dust in a
00:53Laboratory the experiment suggests the water was on the surface
00:57That means Mars became rusty earlier than scientists thought it also supports the belief that there was water and again
01:05It raises the question did something live on the rusty
01:09Planet China and the US are planning separate missions to collect samples from Mars and fly them back to earth
01:16Those missions are several years away
01:18But a Chinese rover has already discovered evidence that Mars may have had beaches a few billion years ago