Newly discovered Mars zircon may hold the secret to life on the red planet
Newly discovered Mars zircon may hold the secret to life on the red planet The zircon crystal was found in the NWA 7034 meteorite, dubbed ‘Black Beauty’ Windows into the past Today Mars is cold and inhospitable. But it may have been more Earth-like and habitable in a bygone era. Landforms on Mars record the action of liquid surface water, perhaps as early as 3.9 billion years ago. Like Earth, early Mars was subject to a global bombardment from chunks of rock and ice floating around the Solar System....