Mars’ Water Too Salty May 30, 2008
Posted by Colloquy in Education, Science, news.Tags: Education, Green Earth, news, Personal, Science
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Well, it’s been pretty exciting reading about the ‘Phoenix’ and all of the salt on Mars lately, but …
It appears that any water that was on Mars was too salty to support life. (As we know it, that is)
Personally, I don’t think we’ve even logged all of the species on our own planet yet. Have we?
Who knows? We have so many different forms of life on Earth, that thrive in completely different environments, that I’m not giving up hope yet. Neither are these two:
Microbiologist Kenneth Nealson of USC and planetary geochemist Jeffrey Kargel of the University of AZ.
Kargel notes that “Perhaps early exploration has been drawn to the most saline and therefore most obvious sites, he writes, missing more hospitable places.” and Nelson thinks that maybe ” martian life may have evolved even better ways to cope with salty water than Earth’s microbes have devised.” Source
I like the way they think!
