Presence of Manganese Oxide Indicates Mars Was Once Earth-Like: Study

NASA’s Curiosity wanderer has watched large amounts of manganese oxides in Martian rocks which demonstrate that larger amounts of barometrical oxygen once existed on the Red Planet.

The revelation says that the Red Planet was again Earth-like than already accepted.

The club adds to other Curiosity discoveries -, for example, proof of antiquated lakes - uncovering how Earth-like our neighboring planet once was.

"The main routes on Earth that we learn how to make these manganese materials include climatic oxygen or organisms," said Nina Lanza, planetary researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead creator on the study.

"Presently we're seeing manganese-oxides on Mars and thinking about how the hell these could have shaped," she included a paper appeared in the diary Geophysical Research Letters.

To achieve this conclusion, Lanza utilized the Los Alamos-created ChemCam instrument that sits on Curiosity to "zap" rocks on Mars and dissected their concoction make-up.

In under four years, since arriving on Mars, ChemCam has broken down around 1,500 shakes and soil tests.

"These high-manganese materials can't shape without loads of fluid water and emphatically oxidizing conditions," said Lanza.

"Here on Earth, we had heaps of water yet not across the board stores of manganese oxides until after the oxygen levels in our air ascended because of photosynthesizing microorganisms," the creator noted.

One conceivable way that oxygen could have gotten into the Martian environment is from the breakdown of water when Mars was losing its attractive field.

"It's imagined that as of now in Mars' history, water was a lot more plentiful," said Lanza.

The following stride is for researchers to better comprehend the marks of non-biogenic versus biogenic manganese, which is straightforwardly created by microorganisms.

On the off chance that it's conceivable to recognize manganese-oxides made by life and those delivered in a non-natural setting, that information can be straightforwardly connected to Martian manganese perceptions to better comprehend their source.