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New and Old Experiments Combine To Help the Search For Life On Mars
jamie sends in a story about an unexpected finding by the Phoenix Mars Lander which has shed new light on experiments done by the Viking landers back in 1976. The Viking experiments found traces of chlorine compounds that were interpreted to be the result of contamination from cleaning fluids on Earth. In 2008, an experiment done by Phoenix found percholates in the soil, which came as a surprise to researchers. After doing tests on similar soil from Chile, a new study has found that those percholates, paired with organic molecules, could very well be the source of the chlorine compounds detected by Viking. While this is not direct evidence for life on Mars, the fact that complex organic compounds can apparently persist in the Martian soil gives researchers a new avenue to pursue while looking for that evidence.
You can find all the seasons there.
The rovers already did! And you ain't gonna like it.
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
My daddy used to mix up potassium perchlorate and sulfur, and then stuff it into tin foil, about the size of a silver dollar. Then he would hit it with a sledge hammer, and, that noise will wake the neighbors!
So if Mars is packed with this stuff ... I'll be the first one to volunteer to go there.
NASA loading officer: "Um, sir, why are taking a sledge hammer, and a roll of tin foil on the mission to Mars?"
Me: "It's for some kind of, um, experiment, or something like that."
Looking for life on Mars? Who cares? Let's just blow the damned place up!
Bombing the Moon looks pretty wimpy compared to the potential that we have here.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Damn, I was hoping it was a typo for perchocolate
Damn, I was hoping they were making coffee.
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
It should be easy to find life on mars. Just look for the spaceports that they used when they attacked Earth in 1938. Just in case, they should have a Slim Whitman record on hand.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
No. It found him while looking for the Illudium Space Modulator.
I think I found evidence of life on mars - take a look at this: http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/1408/lifeonmars.gif
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