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Scientists say they might have identified the mineral on mars
That is responsible for making the planet appear red new data collected on mars
Through several methods suggests the substance called ferahydrright is likely found indust and rock material across wide areas of the planet
The team carrying out
The research describes fair a hydas an iron oxide mineral
The mineral appears radish in color and can form in water
Rich in viremonths
The scientists said
Discovery ing large amounts of it on mars
Adds to existing evidence that the planet might have held a large supply of liquid water in the past
The research was carried out by an international team led by america's brown university and the university of burn in switzererland
The findings recently appeared in a study published in nature communications
The researchers noted that scientists have long wondered about the exact substance that gives mars
Which is also known as the red planet
It's deep red color past studies had suggested a mineral called hemmatite might be the cause
The study is based on martian
Data collected by several spacecraft
These include the mars recogniinence orbitter operated by the american space agency
Nasa
In addition information was captured by instruments aboard
The european space agencies assaas mars express and trace gas orbitters
Some data also came from exploring vehicles called rovers operating on mars in their examinations
The researchers also used man made or synthetic material designed to look and feel similar to real martian dust autommars
Valentineous currently works as a researcher at brown universities department of earth environment and planeary sciences
He helped write the study valentineous noted the mystery of whine mars is red
Had been considered for hundreds
If not thousands of years
Valentineous recognized his team was not the first to consider there a hydrright as a possible reason for the coloring of mars
But he noted it has never been proven as we have now using observational data and novel laboratory methods
Valentineous noted the discovery of widespread faerhhydrright suggests mars once held liquid water
That would have made it possible for the planet to support some form of life
Our study reveals that fare a hydry formation on mars
Required the presence of both oxygen and water capable of reacting with iron
He added these conditions were very different from the dry cold environment of mars
Today john mustard is a planetary expert had brown university
And was a cowriter of the study
He called it a door opening opportunity for future research
But he added that additional study is needed to confirm the team's latest findings as exciting as the new findings are we realize that our results can only be verified by samples from mars
Which are currently being collected by nasa's perseverance
Rover
Mustard said
He added when we get those back
We will be able to check
Whether our theory about fara hydrright is correct
I'm Brian
Len
