Articles for tag: EarthAndMars, EarthHistory, MarsExploration, NASA, SpaceCuriosity

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How Studying Mars Helps Us Understand Earth’s Past (and Future)

Suhail Ahmed

Geology rarely gives us second chances, yet Mars is a kind of time capsule parked next door. While plate tectonics, oceans, and life have reworked much of Earth’s earliest story, the Red Planet kept its ancient chapters pressed flat and legible. That’s why robots roll over Martian lakebeds and orbiters scan polar layers like librarians ...