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November 01, 2012

NASA Rover's First Soil Studies Help Fingerprint Martian Minerals

Similar To Volcanic Soils Found In Hawaii

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii. The minerals were identified in the first sample of Martian soil ingested recently by the rover.

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