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More Evidence for Early Oceans on Mars

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wet-but-no-cigar dept.

DestroyAllZombies writes "More news about Mars. The good news: New Scientist reports that more analysis of Rover data supports the claims for widespread oceans in Mars' distant past. The bad news, from the article: 'An ocean of water once wrapped around Mars, suggests the discovery of soil chemicals by NASA's rovers. But the same chemicals also indicate that life was not widespread on the planet at the time the ocean was present.'"

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  1. Bad news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why is it bad news to learn that there was never any life on Mars? Wouldn't it be much worse news to learn that life was common there and was utterly wiped out?

    I think most people would agree that a planet-wide extinction of all life would qualify as 'bad news'.