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  1. Content with the tag: “perchlorate

  2. Planetary-Scale Transition from Abiotic to Biotic Nitrogen Cycle

    ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1, 2.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1
  3. Liquid Water in the Martian North? Maybe.


    Snow White Trench

    Perchlorate. Never heard of it? Join the club. But NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft has found it in the soil in the icy northern plains of Mars. And now that it’s been found, scientists are scrambling to explain how it got there, and what, if anything, its presence means about the habitability of the martian north.

    Phoenix Lander

    Phoenix didn’t go to Mars to find perchlorate. It went looking for evidence of liquid water. From orbit, NASA’s Mars Odyssey in 2002 discovered water ice in the martian north, lying just inches beneath...

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    Source: [Astrobiology Magazine]

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