NASA discovered a large amount of clay minerals on Mars

Robot discovered Curiosity of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) recently discovered the largest amount of clay minerals since the robot was put on Mars in August 2012.

According to a new NASA announcement, two specimens Curiosity found when drilling two rock targets were named Aberlady and Kilmarie .

The area of ​​high clay content is located on the side of the low area in Mount Sharp.

These specimens contained the highest amount of clay ever discovered in NASA's mission.

Both of these drilling goals were discovered when Curiosity took a new selfie on May 12. The area of ​​high clay content is located on the side of the low area in Mount Sharp.

This region was originally outside of NASA's discovery trajectory before Curiosity was brought to Mars in 2012.

Curiosity is currently working on the discovery of Sharrp Mountain to see if the area has conditions to support life billions of years ago.

Therefore, the new discovery plays an important role in this task because clay is often formed in water, an essential chemical compound for life.

Curiosity's mineralogical analysis tool , CheMin, brought to Earth the first analysis of the drilling samples in the area of ​​much clay.

In addition, during this drill and analysis, Curiosity uses a black and white navigation camera to capture clouds drifting on May 7 and May 12.

These clouds may be ice clouds (containing water), about 31km from the Martian surface.

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