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Silica: what is it?
Silicates are an important family of minerals which represent nearly 95% of the constituents of Earth’s crust. This family includes about 600 species different minerals, whose atomic architecture is characterized…
Perseverance rolls over igneous rocks and discovered organic matter
Astronomers believed them to be sedimentary, but new data returned to Earth by the NASA Perseverance rover shows that the rocks it has been rolling on since arriving on Mars…