Két érdekes hír a marsi kutatásokkal kapcsolatban. Hogy csak egy-két sorukat idézzem:
"Martian dirt is apparently good enough for asparagus to grow in, NASA scientists said Thursday, as they announced the results of a soil analysis collected by the US Phoenix Mars lander."
""The soil you have there is the type of soil you have in your backyard," said Samuel Kounaves, the project's lead chemist at the University of Arizona in a telephone press conference."
""We basically have found what appears to be the requirements of the nutrients to support life, past, present or future,"
"William Boynton from the University of Arizona, the lead Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) scientist, said that scientists had detected small amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) on the surface of the soil particles."
""This soil appears to be a close analog to surface soils found in the upper dry valleys in Antarctica,"
""The alkalinity of the soil at this location is definitely striking. At this specific location, one-inch into the surface layer, the soil is very basic, with a pH of between eight and nine. We also found a variety of components of salts that we haven't had time to analyze and identify yet, but that include magnesium, sodium, potassium and chloride."
"This is more evidence for water because salts are there. We also found a reasonable number of nutrients, or chemicals needed by life as we know it,"
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