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fredag, oktober 15, 2010

Habitable martian environments could be deep beneath planet's surface

Scientists found carbonate  minerals exist along with hydrated  silicate  minerals of a likely hydrothermal  origin.

A new discovery of hydrothermally altered carbonate-bearing rocks on Mars points toward habitable environments deep in the martian crust, a Planetary Science Institute (PSI) researcher said. /Astronomy


Hydrated = hydrerat
Hydrothermal = hydrotermisk

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