Tag: Geochemistry


  • UMass Team Identifies New Mars Mineral, Hints at Past Life

    UMass Team Identifies New Mars Mineral, Hints at Past Life

    Discovery of a New Mars Mineral A team of international planetary scientists, including researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has identified a mineral on Mars that researchers are calling ferric hydroxysulfate. The finding, described in Nature Communications, marks a notable advance in the study of Martian mineralogy and its link to the planet’s watery…