🧐 Daily Mars Facts Part 9

Minerals on Mars

Did you know? There’re minerals on Mars (copper, chromium, iron, nickel,…)! Yes, there’re real minerals, because as you have known, Mars has volcanoes (as mentioned in issue 3) so that means there was magma on this planet as well. Magma flows deep beneath the surface, when it moves and it’s hot, many elements that are essential to creating minerals are also free to move. And as the cooling process begins, these elements will start to freeze and bind with each other to form chemical compounds or minerals.