ChemCam Update – Manganese Oxides on Mars

Multimedia · Thu Jun 30 00:00:00 EDT 2016

OSTI ID:1262370

Lanza, Nina

A recent discovery of manganese oxides in Martian rocks might tell us that the Red Planet was once more Earth-like than previously believed. So what exactly does that mean? Nina Lanza, Los Alamos scientist and lead author of the new paper about these findings in Geophysical Research Letters, breaks it down for us.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 1262370
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
CHEMCAM
CURIOSITY ROVER
MANGANESE OXIDES
MINERALS
MARS