New Findings Point To an Earth Like Environment on Ancient Mars  | Online Marketing Tools | Scoop.it
A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient lake. It is difficult for manganese oxide to form on the surface of Mars, so…