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[h=3]"Slam Dunk" Sign of Ancient Water on Mars[/h]Dec 8, 2011: NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water near the rim of Endeavour Crater. The discovery was presented yesterday at the American Geophysical Union's conference in San Francisco.
"This tells a slam-dunk story that water flowed through underground fractures in the rock," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator for Opportunity. "This stuff is a fairly pure chemical deposit that formed in place right where we see it.[SUP]1[/SUP] It's the kind of thing that makes geologists jump out of their chairs."
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"This tells a slam-dunk story that water flowed through underground fractures in the rock," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator for Opportunity. "This stuff is a fairly pure chemical deposit that formed in place right where we see it.[SUP]1[/SUP] It's the kind of thing that makes geologists jump out of their chairs."
Full story
-http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/08dec_slamdunk/http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/08dec_slamdunk/