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Mars on Earth
March 12 , 2021
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- NASA says the minerals and rock deposits at Salda are the nearest match on earth to those around the Jezero Crater.
- Jezero Crater is the place where the spacecraft (Perseverance) landed.
- It is also believed that Jezero Crater have once been flooded with water.
- The rocks along the shoreline of Lake Salda in Turkey were formed by microbes that trap minerals and sediments in the water which was once a major life form on Earth.
- NASA's Perseverance rover, now housed in Mars, will investigate whether there are microbialites in Jezero Crater.
- It will also compare sediments collected from Lake Salda with fossilised remains at Mars.
- This will help to understand the differences between the Mars sediments and Lake Salda.
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