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Fancy a ‘beach holiday’ on Mars?
CGTN Europe
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26/02/2025
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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#space #mars #china #usa
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Now Mars is known as the red planet, but new data suggests. There's a better name the rusty planet
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Scientists believe Mars is red because of rust they say there's iron in
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The rocks that iron apparently mixed with water and oxygen in one form or another
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This combination can create hydrated iron oxide
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Which is essentially rust the experts believe this rusty material broke down into dust over
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billions of years
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Powerful winds then spread it across the planet now the presence of water suggests Mars may have supported life at
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Some stage but scientists have never been sure if the rust was created by water on the surface or by moisture in the sky
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Above Mars they've now been able to relocate the dust in a
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Laboratory the experiment suggests the water was on the surface
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That means Mars became rusty earlier than scientists thought it also supports the belief that there was water and again
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It raises the question did something live on the rusty
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Planet China and the US are planning separate missions to collect samples from Mars and fly them back to earth
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Those missions are several years away
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But a Chinese rover has already discovered evidence that Mars may have had beaches a few billion years ago
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