Curiosity Rover Finds Minerals and a Clay Cache on Mars: Nasa

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NASA, the US space agency, has announced that its rover on Mars since 2012, Curiosity, has found the highest amounts of clay minerals ever found during its missions on the red planet.

As per the NASA Website,

Clay often forms in water, which is essential for life; Curiosity is exploring Mount Sharp to see if it had the conditions to support life billions of years ago. The rover's mineralogy instrument, called CheMin (Chemistry and Mineralogy), provided the first analyses of rock samples drilled in the clay-bearing unit. CheMin also found very little hematite, an iron oxide mineral that was abundant just to the north, on Vera Rubin Ridge.

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1. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-finds-a-clay-cache
2. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/curiosity-rover-finds-clay-cache-on-mars-nasa/articleshow/69580092.cms