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Article: High silica content in Martian soil provides strongest evidence of Red Planet's watery past

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May 22, 2007
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Washington, May 22 -- NASA's Mars Spirit rover has unearthed further evidence to suggest that Mars had a much wetter past than what is now believed.

Chemical analysis of a patch of Martian soil has found the composition to be about 90 percent pure silica - a sure sign that water once existed on Mars - as such a concentrated deposit of silica requires the presence of water.

According to the researchers, this has been the strongest evidence yet of Mars being a much wetter planet than it is now.

"You could hear people gasp in astonishment. This is a remarkable discovery. And the fact that we found something this new ...

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