Scientists are seeking out rocks from Scotland to prepare themselves for the Mars samples NASA's Perseverance will bring back.
"Those space rocks, as you might imagine, they're going to be extremely valuable," she explained to. "When they come back we're going to want to have procedures in place in order to work with those samples."
Lydia Hallis, a planetary science associate professor at the University of Glasgow, who partook in the mission says the rocks collected from Scotland are similar to the ones found in Mars despite being much younger. "Even though the Martian rocks are much older, the weathering rate on Mars is much slower. So younger rocks in Scotland, where it rains a lot, get weathered quicker," she told theAlthough the scientist has already tackled moon samples brought back from the Apollo missions for her PhD, she is really looking forward to the Martian ones because they are the first to come back from another planet."The moon is interesting, but we know there was never life on the moon.
The scientist highlighted that the Mars samples will be crucial for research on planet formation and possibly how the universe came to be. "The samples that come back, they won't just tell us about how Mars formed. They will tell us about how planets form in our solar system, in other solar systems around other stars," she told
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