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NASA Selects Mars Landing Sites

Posted by michael on Friday April 11, 2003 @09:05AM from the lawn-dart dept.

carstene writes "NASA has announced the finial landing sites for the upcoming mars rover missions. Looks like they are going looking for water in a dried lake bed and a promising site that looks like it contains hematite."

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Re:Hematite? by eggstasy · 2003-04-11 13:34 · Score: 4, Informative

If you remember the controversial meteor of martian origin that was found a while ago, you will also recall that the alleged signs of life were iron crystals of a kind that is usually, at least on Earth, only produced by bacteria.
Hematite is an iron ore. It's logical to assume they're looking for more rocks like that one, which could point towards the existance of life on Mars, past or present.