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Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst are part of a team that has identified a unique mineral on Mars, described in Nature Communications. Named ferric hydroxysulfate, the mineral ...

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst are part of a team that has identified a unique mineral on Mars, described ...

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