Comparing Earth And Mars, New Study Shows How Mineral Diversity Is Controlled By Plate Tectonics And Emergence Of Life
Perseverance takes a selfie as it looks at “Rochette” – the first rock successfully sampled by the … [+] rover on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS More than 6,000 different minerals are known to exist on Earth, but after more than 50 years of investigations, only 161 minerals have been found on Mars—a dramatically lower number for a …