sciencecenter: Unambiguous evidence of water on Mars discovered by Opportunity rover NASA’s Opportunity rover has seen a mineral on Mars that could only have formed in the presence of liquid water. “This is the single most powerful piece of evidence that water once flowed on Mars that has been discovered,” said planetary scientist Steve Squyres of Cornell University during a briefing at the 2011 American Geophysical Union meeting on Dec. 7. “There’s no ambiguity about this.” Researchers have found a bright vein of gypsum, a mineral that could only have been deposited by water. The finding suggests that billions of years ago warm water flowed through underground fractures in the rocks. Is “water on Mars” close to becoming “old news”?HOW DARE YOU! Of course not. NOW FIND ME A MICROBE!
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Unambiguous evidence of water on Mars discovered by Opportunity rover

NASA’s Opportunity rover has seen a mineral on Mars that could only have formed in the presence of liquid water.

“This is the single most powerful piece of evidence that water once flowed on Mars that has been discovered,” said planetary scientist Steve Squyres of Cornell University during a briefing at the 2011 American Geophysical Union meeting on Dec. 7. “There’s no ambiguity about this.”

Researchers have found a bright vein of gypsum, a mineral that could only have been deposited by water. The finding suggests that billions of years ago warm water flowed through underground fractures in the rocks.

Is “water on Mars” close to becoming “old news”?

HOW DARE YOU! Of course not.

NOW FIND ME A MICROBE!

Source: Wired

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