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NASA Says Mars Rocks Formed in a Salty Sea

Posted by michael on from the let-there-be-life dept.

NASA has made another announcement, live on NASA TV, regarding the discoveries of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. They believe that the rocks examined by Opportunity were actually formed in water; that those rocks were actually sediments laid down in a shallow salty sea. They've already had outside scientists examine their data and those scientists concur with the conclusions. NASA has a story with explanations and some photos.

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  1. Re:Windows Media by hondo77 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Real worked just fine on the iMac. Actually, the sound worked fine. The "picture" was more a series of still images that changed every few seconds.

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  2. Re:Ok by FroMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    NO! Don't say that! Bush wants to go to mars, we must resist. We must hate Bush first and foremost. If we do something Bush wants, well, well, well, I dunno, the world could end! No going to mars! No going to mars! Must hate Bush more than not going to mars! ...

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  3. Re:Windows Media by Long-EZ · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Suggestion: Linux, Mozilla, Realplayer. None of the Windows Realplayer nastiness you described. It just plays the video, as it should.

    I still think we need one open source industry standard media format.

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  4. Re:Windows Media by devnulljapan · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I agree, Real is horrible if you use their SW. So, use RealAlternative or get Realplayer via the BBC, they seem to have done a deal with Real to package less of the crapware with it.

    Or Xine will play Real with the win32 codecs installed. Some info here.

  5. Re:makes sense by carpe_noctem · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For every joke you steal, I'm going to tell three.

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