Fancy a ‘beach holiday’ on Mars?

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Fancy a holiday to Mars? New data offers fresh evidence that the Red Planet once had water and even beaches.   That was billions of years ago, but it still sounds promising 🚀😂   Thumbnail image generated using AI  #space #mars #china #usa

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00:00Now Mars is known as the red planet, but new data suggests. There's a better name the rusty planet

00:07Scientists believe Mars is red because of rust they say there's iron in

00:13The rocks that iron apparently mixed with water and oxygen in one form or another

00:19This combination can create hydrated iron oxide

00:23Which is essentially rust the experts believe this rusty material broke down into dust over

00:30billions of years

00:32Powerful winds then spread it across the planet now the presence of water suggests Mars may have supported life at

00:40Some stage but scientists have never been sure if the rust was created by water on the surface or by moisture in the sky

00:48Above Mars they've now been able to relocate the dust in a

00:53Laboratory the experiment suggests the water was on the surface

00:57That means Mars became rusty earlier than scientists thought it also supports the belief that there was water and again

01:05It raises the question did something live on the rusty

01:09Planet China and the US are planning separate missions to collect samples from Mars and fly them back to earth

01:16Those missions are several years away

01:18But a Chinese rover has already discovered evidence that Mars may have had beaches a few billion years ago

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