Accidental Deep Ocean Discovery Changes Our Understanding of Earth

Studying a rock is like reading a book. The rock has a story to tell, says Frieder Klein, an associate scientist in the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The rocks that Klein and his colleagues analyzed from the submerged flanks of

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Blog post by Erin Gibbons explaining the importance of the #Perseverance rover's approach to locations identified as carbonate-rich from instruments in orbit above Mars.
#Mars2020 #McGillUniversity #MinCup23 #calcite #siderite #magnesite

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/status/478/reading-the-rocks-the-importance-of-the-margin-carbonate-unit-on-mars/

Reading the Rocks: The Importance of the Margin Carbonate Unit on Mars - NASA

After more than two and a half years of driving and exploring, Perseverance is closing in on an eagerly anticipated destination: the margin carbonate unit.