{"id":504164,"date":"2026-06-17T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504164\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:27:07","slug":"scientists-discover-new-rock-type-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/504164\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover New Rock Type On Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists need to now study the garnet&#8217;s isotopic signatures to verify if it was originally produced on Mars or on another planetary body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Measuring oxygen isotopes from the garnet-bearing rock type itself would help to confirm if it is Martian in origin or from an exotic meteorite impactor,&#8221; Kizovski said. &#8220;Isotopes are a collection of atoms with equal numbers of protons and electrons, but different numbers of neutrons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, that process would entail destroying some of the sample, &#8220;which was avoided thus far due to its rarity, as it may be the only garnet-bearing Martian rock we have for study,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>ROM curator Kim Tait and Research Assistant Jessica Tomacic, together with Professor Darling, are continuing to study the sample. &#8220;With their work and more comparisons to rover and orbital data, I&#8217;m hopeful that we will be able to learn more about the origin and history of garnet on Mars,&#8221; Kizovski said.<\/p>\n<p>The team&#8217;s study  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org\/article2619\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Expanding Mars&#8217; lithologic diversity: discovery of a garnet-bearing clast in NWA 8171<\/a> , was published Tuesday, June 16 in Geochemical Perspectives Letters.<\/p>\n<p>This research project is funded in part by the Government of Canada&#8217;s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Killam Trusts Dorothy Killam fellowship, as well as Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) funding at Portsmouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists need to now study the garnet&#8217;s isotopic signatures to verify if it was originally produced on Mars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,82],"class_list":["post-504164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}