Making use of briny water on Mars (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Making use of briny water on Mars

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This illustration shows Jezero Crater -- the landing site of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover -- as it may have looked billions of years go on Mars, when it was a lake. Vijay Ramani's lab has developed a way to extract hydrogen and oxygen out of the briny water that may remain under the Martian surface.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

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