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Bummer! Just when I was hoping for Marvin the Martian to make an appearance not only is Phoenix experiencing difficulty but I read an article speculating Mars was a pickled egg from the beginning, so briny it could never have supported any life forms. The “Raiders of the Future” project presupposed Martian mummies to work with, but the amount of salt now supposed for the red planet since its formation would preclude any life to be mummified: Mars may be too salty for life: Signs of water alone may not prove Martians exist(ed). By Andrea Thompson; Space.com. May 29, 2008. In 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover found evidence in Martian soils that water had once flowed across the surface there, buoying hopes that the red planet may once have supported primitive life. But a new study throws some cold water, and a big pinch of salt, on those hopes. "Liquid water is required by all species on Earth and we've assumed that water is the very least that would be necessary for...
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