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Mars may once have held enough water to fill oceans and form coastlines. The planet’s red dust contains water and likely formed in cold conditions.

Mars is the Red Planet, but turns out the moon has the makings of a reddish cast, too. Yes, scientists have found rust on the moon. The question is: why?

A study suggests Mars takes its red hue from a type of mineral that forms in cool water, which could reveal insights about whether Mars was ever able to support life.

At some point, iron within rocks on Mars reacted with water or water ... which led researchers to believe that the iron oxide must be hematite. The dry mineral, a main component of iron ore ...

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iron oxide forms when iron in rocks reacts with moisture, whether in liquid form or suspended in the air. But the Mars we know today is incredibly dry, leading scientists to propose that hematite ...

We found that ferrihydrite mixed with basalt, a volcanic rock, best fits the minerals seen ... regolith contains ferrihydrite instead of hematite, they say they are the first to have investigated ...

The water-rich iron mineral ferrihydrite may be the main culprit behind Mars's reddish dust, rather than the dry, rust-like mineral known as hematite.