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Life Meanwhile, on Mars
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Potential life! Not now, though.
An orbiting spacecraft has discovered a key mineral in bedrock on the Martian surface that suggests the planet might once have had an environment hospitable to life, scientists reported Thursday....The region "would have really been a clement, benign environment for early Martian life," said mission scientist Bethany Ehlmann of Brown University.
Photo from Science Daily, credit: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/University of Arizona/Brown University.
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Wait, a scientist named Bethany used the term "clement" and this was posted by...
OH SHIT, THEY'RE HERE!
OH SHIT, THEY'RE HERE!
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