After a search that has gone on for decades, scientists have announced the discovery of substantial deposits of carbonate rocks on Mars. Although the new rocks are not from the bed of a long-lost ocean, as would once have been hoped, the discovery is still fanning hopes that the rocks might hold preserved traces of organic matter from the planet's early history. The carbonates were discovered using the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), an instrument operated by NASA. (source: nature.com)
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