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Not all water is fit to drink

Posted on February 17, 2008 | Comments Off on Not all water is fit to drink

Nor all water suitable for microbial life. So seems to be the early conclusions of Spirit and Opportunity’s explorations on Mars. But they’re not definitive, and more work by more rovers is yet to come. The great thing is that it’s all been done by robots, and relatively inexpensively. Someday, when humans do set foot on the Red Planet, they’ll land at spots that have been thoroughly investigated and found to be the best candidates for habitation.

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Where there’s water, there’s life

Posted on December 6, 2006 | Comments Off on Where there’s water, there’s life

So scientists have long said, and now they say they have evidence that there is water on Mars. Not was water, but is water. It’s sensor evidence in before and after photos taken by Mars Global Surveyor, which still needs to be verified by robots on the ground, but now the hunt for life can truly begin, even if it’s only microbial. I might add that it also would seem to strengthen the controversial, decade-old finding of microbial life in a Martian meteorite found in Antarctica.

Via Instapundit 

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