New data pinpoint Mars' wet and balmy past


	New data pinpoint Mars' wet and balmy past

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7-16-2008 11:13 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f41058e9-4989-426d-b85c-b22a7141ff42/DEC4D60A-4A1B-41D0-A272-DE0C0F3A9C69/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080716133503.n9m716c7&show_article=1" href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080716133503.n9m716c7&show_article=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.breitbart.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080716133503.n9m716c7&show_article=1">Water bathed the surface of southern Mars for millions of years, helping to create an environment theoretically capable of nurturing life, according to a new study into the planet's mysterious oceans.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080716133503.n9m716c7&show_article=1"><P>             Scientists at <A rel="nofollow" href="http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=Brown%20University&sid=breitbart.com" class="lingo_link" linkindex="38">Brown University</A> in <A rel="nofollow" href="http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=Rhode%20Island&sid=breitbart.com" class="lingo_link" linkindex="39" set="yes">Rhode Island</A> used an instrument aboard a US spacecraft, the <A rel="nofollow" href="http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=Mars%20Reconnaissance%20Orbiter&sid=breitbart.com" class="lingo_link" linkindex="40">Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,</A> to hunt for traces of phyllosilicates, or clay-like minerals that preserve a record of water's interaction with rocks. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080716133503.n9m716c7&show_article=1"><P>              They found phyllosilicates in thousands of places, in valleys, dunes and craters in the ancient southern highlands, pointing to an active role by water in Mars's earliest geological era, the Noachian period, 4.6 to 3.8 billion years ago. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080716133503.n9m716c7&show_article=1"><P>             "These results point to a rich diversity of Noachian environments conducive to habitability," the authors conclude. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080716133503.n9m716c7&show_article=1"><P>             An intriguing find was of deposits in the pointed peaks at the centre of craters. These peaks are generally taken to be underground material thrown up by an impacting asteroid or comet. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DEC4D60A-4A1B-41D0-A272-DE0C0F3A9C69/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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