{"id":4161,"date":"2015-07-13T12:43:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T17:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2015-07-13T12:43:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T17:43:44","slug":"martian-crust-shows-similarities-to-the-earths-oldest-continental-crust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/martian-crust-shows-similarities-to-the-earths-oldest-continental-crust\/","title":{"rendered":"Martian crust shows similarities to the Earth\u2019s oldest continental crust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4162\" style=\"width: 531px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0512MH0001630000200884R00_DXXX_framed1_scale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4162\" class=\"wp-image-4162\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0512MH0001630000200884R00_DXXX_framed1_scale.jpg\" alt=\"Researchers analyzed rocks probed by the Curiosity rover and found that light-coloured rocks are rich in silica content and are found in a variety of compositions on the Martian crust. (Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS)\" width=\"521\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0512MH0001630000200884R00_DXXX_framed1_scale.jpg 963w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0512MH0001630000200884R00_DXXX_framed1_scale-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers analyzed rocks probed by the Curiosity rover and found that light-coloured rocks are rich in silica content and are found in a variety of compositions on the Martian crust. (Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Silica-rich rocks found in the Martian crust shows ancient Mars may have been more similar to Earth than previously thought. These rocks are similar to some of the Earth\u2019s oldest continental crust, which have, until now, only been observed in small, localized areas on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The new findings suggest the the Red Planet has experienced magmatic processes similar to those seen on Earth. Researchers analyzed geochemical data from more than 20 rocks probed by the Curiosity rover near the Gale crater.<\/p>\n<p>Until now it had been thought that the Martian crust was mostly composed of basalts based on meteorite analysis and orbital spectroscopy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ngeo\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/ngeo2474.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the <em>Nature Geosciene <\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 13<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Roman Thomas, University of Cologne, Germany<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silica-rich rocks found in the Martian crust shows ancient Mars may have been more similar to Earth than previously thought. These rocks are similar to some of the Earth\u2019s oldest continental crust, which have, until now, only been observed in small, localized areas on Mars. The new findings suggest the the Red Planet has experienced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1457,1348,533],"class_list":["post-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-geology","tag-mars","tag-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0512MH0001630000200884R00_DXXX_framed1_scale.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-157","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}