The Mars Explorer "Kiriyosity" reveals a clay layer filled with minerals in the red planet

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NASA's Marsa Kerioceti probe revealed a marshy layer on the surface of Mars in the area being explored, which has the highest amounts of clay minerals found during the mission.

According to Phys, this clay-rich region emerged in NASA orbits before the explorer landed in 2012, and mud often forms in the water. Kyriosity explores the Mount Sharp area where this layer is found to know what If they have the necessary conditions to support the life of millions of years.

The metal tool in the Navigator provided the first analysis of rock samples drilled into the unit and found a large amount of minerals including very little hematite, a metal oxide iron.

Images explorer during data collection

What these new results mean for the region is still debatable. The rocks in the region are likely to have been formed as layers of mud in the old lakes, and the water has interacted with the sediments over time, leaving an abundance of mud in the rocks there.

In the midst of this new excavation and analysis, the Explorer took a break to see some clouds. The explorer used black and white cameras (Navcams) to capture clouds of clouds on May 7 and May 12, 2019. It is likely that snowy clouds will be about 19 miles above the surface.

The task force is also trying to coordinate the cloud observations with NASA's Insight vehicle, about 373 miles away, and recently captured images of clouds, where capturing the same clouds from two different points can help scientists calculate their altitude.