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Fingerprinting Martian Minerals
October 30, 2012 | NASA

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii.” Quoted from the NASA press release.


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