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Meet the 25th Martian sample collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover – “Sapphire Canyon” – a sample taken from a vein-filled rock named “Cheyava Falls.” The arrowhead-shaped rock contains compelling features that may help answer whether Mars was home to microscopic life in the distant past.

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This remarkable colour image from 1915 shows Sir Ernest Shackleton's crew beside their trapped ship 'The Endurance', weeks before it sank in the Antarctic.

The plate was taken by Frank Hurley 110 years ago during Shackletons doomed Trans-Antarctic Expedition, and is one of only a dozen to survive, as Hurley smashed all his other glass plates to prevent him being tempted to return to the doomed ship to retrieve them.

This is original colour and has not colourised. The image was cleaned & enhanced by Stuart Humphryes.

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