HKU Scientist Makes Key Discoveries in the Search for Life on Mars (IMAGE)

The University of Hong Kong

HKU Scientist Makes Key Discoveries in the Search for Life on Mars

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A false color image from the HiRISE instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows amazing diversity of rocks exhumed from the Martian subsurface a meteor impact in the Nili Fossae area. The image is 1 km across. This site and others like it contain rocks that were altered by fluids in the Martian crust billions of years ago, at the time when life first emerged on Earth. These rocks represent exploration targets that could teach us about the origin of life.

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NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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