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Digital Camera World
Leonie Helm

Fancy a space snack? NASA takes pictures of "popcorn" on Mars

The surface of an area of Mars called Bright Angel. Its light colored rock formations look like popcorn.

After months of driving around on the surface of Mars, also known as the "Red Planet", the car-sized Mars rover Perseverance has discovered a group of rocks with a "popcorn-like texture".

The shape of the rocks resembling popcorn is significant because it suggests that groundwater flowed through the rocks after they were set down, a potentially very exciting clue into past life on Mars. 

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