Curiosity, NASA robots on Mars. (NASA)
Hitekno.com – NASA have successfully investigated clay samples collected from Gale Crater in Mars in 2016. What do you get from the Red Planet?
Martian soil samples this is obtained through missions carried out by the explorer robot Curiosity NASA in 2016 ago.
It may contain mineral remains which suggest that the Red Planet had habitable conditions up to a million years ago.
The scientists analyzed samples from the crater and found the clay minerals are structurally and compositionally related to the glauconite clay.
Glauconite is also found on Earth. Its presence on Mars suggests the planet once had stable conditions, with temperatures from 26-123 degrees Fahrenheit and the water inside Gale Crater having a neutral pH level.
NASA’s Curiosity rover arrived at Gale Crater in August 2012 and has been looking for signs of water and organic compounds inside. the land of Mars since then.
Experts have long estimated that the 96-mile-wide crater contained a 10-million-year-old ancient lake some 3.5 billion years ago, but the team of experts has not determined whether the water is suitable for life.
The team then studied samples taken by Curiosity on the lower slopes of a central mound called Aeolis Mons.
Geochemical modeling is used to obtain information about the composition of water in the Gale Crater lake. Also, to evaluate whether it is consistent with the formation of glauconite clay on Earth.
Although research suggests Mars once had habitable conditions, these clay minerals are not evidence that life actually existed on the Red Planet.
To prove it, NASA’s new Perseverance rover is investigating by collecting samples and looking for signs of ancient life at Jezero Crater.
That’s the result of research from Martian soil samples from Gale Crater, NASA found that the Red Planet was once in a habitable condition 1 million years ago. (Suara.com/ Lintang Siltya Utami).
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