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“We’re finding places on Mars that used to look like ancient beaches and ancient river deltas,” said Benjamin Cardenas, the study co-author and assistant professor of geology at Penn State.

That’s because spacecraft observations of the compounds had not identified traces of water, indicating the iron oxide must have appeared after all of Mars’ ancient lakes and rivers had evaporated.