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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Martian Salts - Reveals H2O History?

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-wat … g.html]New article from spacedaily.com

*Epsom-like salts, eh?  Will be good for soaking tired Marsian feet.   :;):

Includes Mars Odyssey map.

I checked; don't see this previously posted. 

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

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SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 28,992

Re: Martian Salts - Reveals H2O History?

Surprise, surprise the previous 1976 Viking missions suggested that the existence of magnesium sulfate salts on Mars was possible. I also recall that it also suggested it had found signs of life as well but much the same all was discounted and verbally explained away. Now it should seem that we have either grown up or we feel that we can accept the truth from those so old previous Mars explorers...