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Posted by tourdemars to Life on Mars at March 23, 2004 11:16 AM
NASA's Opportunity rover has demonstrated some rocks on Mars probably formed as deposits at the bottom of a body of gently flowing saltwater. "We think Opportunity is parked on what was once the shoreline of a salty sea on Mars," said Dr. Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator for the science payload on Opportunity and its twin Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit. Clues gathered so far do not tell how long or how long ago liquid water covered the area. To gather more evidence, the rover's controllers plan to send Opportunity out across a plain toward a thicker exposure of rocks in the wall of a crater.TrackBack URL for this entry:
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This is not worth the space it takes up. Give us what we are all looking for not just the bullet highlights of scientific interest. The bullet states we do not know how much water, we do not know how long ago before disappearing and we do not know for how long it was around. When an announcement is made, it should not be with more questions than answers.
The highlight of the ISS and of growing peas for the third generation was more news worthy. Studying the genetic changes do to LEO and gravity is of greater importance. If we must be more self sufficient when we arrive on Mars.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at March 23, 2004 11:55 AM