Rainbow on Mars? ESA reveals stunning pics of ‘rusty’ red planet, netizens say ‘feels like home’

Stunning pictures of the Mars’ desert-looking surface were uploaded by the European Space Agency, which showed layers of yellow clays along with white and blue aluminium deposits and dark eroded rock. Mars is one of the most explored planets in the solar system with efforts to find human life there.

The pictures were released by the ESA with the caption “Mars: More than just red” with stunning visuals of the planet’s surface. The ESA uploaded images captured from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter showing layers of yellow clays (containing iron and magnesium), white and blue aluminium deposits and dark eroded rock. “Sure, Mars looks rusty from Earth, but space cameras reveal a surprising rainbow,” said ESA

The agency presented the age-old question that has puzzled people and explorers alike, “Does Mars hold the secrets of ancient life?”. The post has been widely shared by social media users, garnering over 7,000 likes and counting. It also accumulated thousands of comments from awestruck netizens. “Why is it looking more and more like home, right?” said one individual

Mars is one of the most thoroughly explored planets of the solar system, except Earth of course! According to the ESA, there were high hopes that the planet’s seasonal colour changes were signs of growing vegetation. The existence of plants meant that all manner of other life might be out there. However, scientists have not been able to confirm whether there is life suitable to humans on the red planet

Mars, the 4th planet from the sun, is distinguished by its rusty red hue and features two peculiar moons. The Red Planet is a chilly, desert-like planet in our solar system. Despite its scant atmosphere, the dusty, dead planet is not particularly uninteresting. The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed images that take viewers by surprise as they present Mars in a completely different light. A “surprising rainbow” has been spotted on the “rusty” Mars by ESA’s space cameras.

Uploading the visuals on Instagram, the Space Agency stated in the caption, “Mars: More than just red.” It continued to provide further information after disclosing that its space camera had captured a “surprising rainbow”.

What colour pops in your mind when you hear Mars? For most, it is the rusty red surface of our neighbouring planet. In a recent post, however, the European Space Agency (ESA) shared photos that show the Red Planet in a never-seen-before light. The visuals have stunned people

Here are some recent news stories about life on Mars:

• NASA rover discovers mysterious boulder NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered a light-toned boulder while exploring a crater on Mars that may provide insights into potential life that once existed there. 
• Oxygen-rich rocks suggest Mars may have been more Earth-like New rocks found on Mars suggest that the planet may have once had an oxygen-rich atmosphere, making it more hospitable to life than previously thought. 
• NASA and ESA sign agreement to expand ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed an agreement to expand NASA’s work on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover, which is scheduled to launch in 2028 and search for signs of ancient life on Mars. 
• NASA’s Perseverance rover analyzes a rock target NASA’s Perseverance rover used its spectrometer and camera to analyze a rock target for the first time since encountering an issue in January. The instrument plays a key role in the mission’s search for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. 

there a life Underground on Mars?

Organisms called “methanogens” likely lived in underground lairs on Mars billions of years ago, a new study says, and they may still exist

Is there any living thing in Mars?

Scientists don’t expect to find living things currently thriving on Mars. Instead, they’re looking for signs of life that existed long ago, when Mars was warmer and covered with water

Are there humans living in Mars?

While there have been several robotic missions exploring the planet , Mars remains uninhabited . However , scientists continue to search for signs of past or present life on Mars , as it has been identified as a potential candidate for harboring life due to its geological history and similarities to Earth

At least two-thirds of Mars’ surface is more than 3.5 billion years old, and it could have been habitable 4.48 billion years ago, 500 million years before the earliest known Earth lifeforms; Mars may thus hold the best record of the prebiotic conditions leading to life, even if life does not or has never existed there

Does Mars have ancient life?

NASA’s Perseverance rover may already have found signs of life on Mars, discovery of ancient lake sediments reveals. The discovery of an ancient lake bed beneath the Perseverance rover’s location on Mars could mean the robotic scout has already scraped up microbial fossils.

Mars oceans theory

The Mars ocean theory states that nearly a third of the surface of Mars was covered by an ocean of liquid water early in the planet’s geologic history. This primordial ocean, dubbed Paleo-Ocean or Oceanus Borealis (/oʊˈsiːənəs ˌbɒriˈælɪs/oh-SEE-ə-nəs BORR-ee-AL-iss), would have filled the basin Vastitas Borealis in the northern hemisphere, a region that lies 4–5 km (2.5–3 miles) below the mean planetary elevation, at a time period of approximately 4.1–3.8 billion years ago. Evidence for this ocean includes geographic features resembling ancient shorelines, and the chemical properties of the Martian soil and atmosphere. Early Mars would have required a denser atmosphere and warmer climate to allow liquid water to remain at the surface

Why is Mars so rusty?

So where does that redness come from? Well, a lot of rocks on Mars are full of iron, and when they’re exposed to the great outdoors, they ‘oxidize’ and turn reddish – the same way an old bike left out in the yard gets all rusty

Would metal rust on Mars?

The low quantity of oxygen in the Martian atmosphere and the absence of liquid water means that exposed steel may be less prone to rust than on Earth

Mars was too cool to lose its red colour.© NASA

Why is Mars so much rustier than the Earth? The red planet has more than twice as much iron oxide in its outer layers as our own, yet most planet scientists reckon the two bodies were formed from the same materials.

David Rubie and colleagues from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, say they have an answer: the intense heat inside the early Earth was enough to convert a lot of iron oxide into molten metallic iron, which seeped down into the planet to form a huge liquid core.

Mars never achieved the temperatures needed for this process simply because it is smaller, they say. This left more iron oxide in the upper layers of the planet, which led to its distinctive russet hue and relatively puny iron core.

“Our model shows that the planets could have formed from the same material and then evolved to their present compositions and internal structure,” says Rubie.

To reach their conclusions, the team used a hydraulic press to squeeze a sample of iron, nickel and oxygen to more than 175,000 times atmospheric pressure while heating it up to 2,400 °C. These experiments, published today in  Nature¹, helped them to understand how oxygen and iron would have behaved in the planets’ early magma oceans. 

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