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Filled with briny lakes, the Quisquiro salt flat in South America's Altiplano represents the kind of landscape that scientists think may have existed in Gale Crater, which NASA's Curiosity rover is exploring. This salt flat is located in Chile, though the Altiplano sprawls across countries. Streams and rivers flowing from mountain ranges into this arid, high-altitude plateau lead to closed basins similar to Mars' ancient Gale Crater. Lakes on the Altiplano are heavily influenced by climate in the same way as Gale. -- NASA

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Why Is Methane Seeping on Mars? NASA Scientists Have New Ideas

by Keith CowingApril 23, 2024April 23, 2024

A recent paper may help explain why a portable chemistry lab on NASA’s Curiosity rover has continually sniffed out traces of the gas near the surface of Gale Crater.

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Why Is Methane Seeping on Mars? NASA Scientists Have New Ideas

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An Enriched Methane D/H Ratio in the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS