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Opportunity still coming up trumps on Mars 7 years on
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<blockquote data-quote="Topper" data-source="post: 779663" data-attributes="member: 186250"><p>[h=3]"Slam Dunk" Sign of Ancient Water on Mars[/h]<span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong>Dec 8, 2011:</strong> 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.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">"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."</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p>Full story</p><p>-http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/08dec_slamdunk/<a href="http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/08dec_slamdunk/" target="_blank">http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/08dec_slamdunk/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Topper, post: 779663, member: 186250"] [h=3]"Slam Dunk" Sign of Ancient Water on Mars[/h][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial][B]Dec 8, 2011:[/B] 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."[/FONT][/COLOR] Full story -http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/08dec_slamdunk/[URL="http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/08dec_slamdunk/"][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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