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Article: Salt in Mars soil not bad for life
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2008
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LOS ANGELES -- Traces of a rocket fuel ingredient found in the
Martian soil would not necessarily hinder potential life, mission
scientists said Tuesday.
NASA's Phoenix spacecraft earlier this month detected the
chemical perchlorate, a highly oxidizing salt, in soil samples dug
up from near the Martian surface. On Earth, it can be found
naturally in the arid Atacama Desert in Chile where some extreme
organisms use it as a source of energy.
"We know that microbes can exist quite happily in oxidizing
conditions," said Phoenix scientist Richard Quinn of the NASA Ames
Research Center. "The story possibly could turn out to be the same
for Mars. We don't know yet."
The surprising find comes less ...
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