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What are the odds it is from Earth?
peterabbit456 on
Less than a mile from my house there is a kaolinite deposit, on a granite mountainside. The granite has decomposed into 3-5mm quartz crystals, in a matrix of kaolinite.
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a cloudy, rainy Mars is certainly a mind-blowing thing to imagine.
Here’s [the original press release published by Purdue University](https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/2025/Q4/findings-suggest-red-planet-was-warmer-wetter-millions-of-years-ago/).
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What are the odds it is from Earth?
Less than a mile from my house there is a kaolinite deposit, on a granite mountainside. The granite has decomposed into 3-5mm quartz crystals, in a matrix of kaolinite.
Just water and time, that’s all it took.