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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. Crap first post chance and I have nothing to say. by tgd · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This sucks.

    Go NASA?

  2. Rocks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    look at deez rocks. /me looks down

  3. GINA WORKS TEH DINER ALL DAY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    livin on teh prayer!!!

  4. My god! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've decidely stepped on my balls.

    Who stepped on my balls?

    The dirty French did!

    AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  5. Stupid Login Screen.... by Wandering+Wombat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    THIS close to getting the first comment, but NOOOO, it had to tell me that my username was wrong!

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  6. Re:Crap first post chance and I have nothing to sa by tgd · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dammit, I've got a four digit UID and in like six or seven years of reading Slashdot I've never had a chance to get a first post, and now I get whacked by the moderators.

    Don't moderate us old codgers like that, we don't get the opportunities you young whippersnappers get.

  7. In related news... by Dracolytch · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mars rover Sprit discovers a small puddle, drives into it, and dies a sad electronic death.

    Later reports detail it was in fact George W. Bush who had requested that they let him "Take that moon buggy thing for a spin".

    Bush's immidiate response was, "Dad's gonna be piiiised".

    ~D

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  8. I predict the next finding will be by Em+Emalb · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this. Don't say I didn't warn you.

    Shhhh. You'll wake baby.

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  9. Windows Media by TheRealMindChild · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was eagerly waiting to watch the stream on NasaTV, but the Windows Media version had no sound.... then I did the unthinkable. I clicked the real player stream link. The horror that came after... real player popped open after sucking up the rest of my free resources, popped up a spam window, made sure its little bit of spyware lauched on startup, then wanted me to "register" before I even got to watch... needless to say, I didnt.

    What ever happened to MPEG1 as a low-band streaming format?

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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: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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    3. 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.

  10. 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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  11. One thing I've been wondering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    /breaks out tinfoil hat

    There seems to be a lot significant increase in the talk of humans being able to live on Mars someday, and then there's all the talk about asteroids hitting Earth. Does NASA know something the rest of us don't, and there's a mad rush to get some sort of habitat on Mars or the Moon so the human race isn't completely irradicated?

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

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

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