NASA Rover Zapped Mars Rock and Found Gemstone Surprise
NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered chromium-bearing corundum, the mineral behind rubies and sapphires, inside three pale float rocks in Jezero Crater in 2025. According to research published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2026, the unexpected find challenges existing models of Martian geology. When NASA’s Perseverance rover examined pale rocks scattered across Jezero Crater in 2025, scientists … Read more