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Too Salty to Freeze
March 20, 2009 / Posted by: Aaron Gronstal
Liquid water has been detected and photographed for the first time on Mars. Researchers have identified salty, liquid water on a leg of NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander. The discovery means that previous assumptions that water could only exist as ice and vapor on Mars due to the planet’s surface temperature and pressure may be incorrect.
The team from the University of Michigan believes that the droplets are highly salty water that splashed onto Phoenix’s leg when the spacecraft’s landing jets melted ice just below the martian surface. The mud droplets appeared to grow over time as they absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, and then some of the droplets moved and merged. The observation could have profound implications in determining the habitability of Mars.Source: [Astrobiology Magazine]
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