NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered high-purity quartz crystals on Mars, a discovery that could reshape the search for ...

Since its arrival on the Martian surface five years ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy scouring the Red Planet for ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the ...

Pure quartz, or “rock crystal” from Brazil. Source: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0 Pick up a rock almost anywhere on Earth and chances are pretty good that there’s at least some quartz in it.

The rover’s journey through the hills also uncovered something wholly unexpected: a field of brilliant white stones composed of pure quartz. On Earth, quartz often forms in hydrothermal systems ...