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[-] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Since October 2023, the rover has been exploring a region of Mars rich with sulfates, a kind of salt that contains sulfur and forms as water evaporates. But where past detections have been of sulfur-based minerals — in other words, a mix of sulfur and other materials — the rock Curiosity recently cracked open is made of elemental, or pure, sulfur. It isn’t clear what relationship, if any, the elemental sulfur has to other sulfur-based minerals in the area.

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 3 points 3 months ago

I hope NASA is keeping a lookout for additional deposits of charcoal and saltpeter.

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