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Surprising Further Evidence for a Wet Mars

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the slippery-when-wet dept.

Riding with Robots writes "When the robotic geologist Spirit found the latest evidence for a wet Mars, 'You could hear people gasp in astonishment,' said Steve Squyres, the lead scientist for the Mars rovers. 'This is a remarkable discovery. And the fact that we found something this new and different after nearly 1,200 days on Mars makes it even more remarkable. It makes you wonder what else is still out there.' The latest discovery, announced today, adds compelling new evidence for ancient conditions that might have been favorable for life, according to the rover team."

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  1. Mars is wet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mars has a vagina?? OMG lolz

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



    TFA concludes that water had to be present as a solvent. I'm sceptical. Silica is a polar molecule ( tetraheral: two oxygen atoms and two unlinked electron pairs equally spaced around a silion atom ). It ought to dissolve in any polar solvent, such as ammonia. And ammonia was almost certainly present during the formation of mars.



    Let me tell you what isn't wet. Women around you.







  3. Mods are the real anonymous cowards. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    EOM.

  4. Re:Mars, you're so wet. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The real question is:

    is Uranus wet?