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Evidence of Continental Crust on Mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered evidence of a continental crust similar to Earth’s on Mars. A paper published in Nature Geoscience documented the analysis of around 20 rock samples; many of the rocks in the Gale Crater, Curiosity’s landing site, were found to have a similar composition to rocks found in Earth’s continental crust. Though further study …

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