Hidden Clues in Spirit Rover Data Suggest Mars Once Had Far More Water than Scientists Realized

NASA’s Spirit rover on Mars. Image credit: NASA.

A new look at more than two decades’ worth of archival data from NASA’s Spirit mission suggests that the Martian soil may hold iron-bearing minerals — hematite and altered magnetite — that were too faint for scientists to detect in real time during the mission.

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