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Mars ‘Too Salty’ For Life

by | 16th, February 2008

DR Andrew Knoll, a member of the Mars rover team, a biologist at Harvard University, is speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston.

Says he of early Mars: “It was really salty – in fact, it was salty enough that only a handful of known terrestrial organisms would have a ghost of a chance of surviving there when conditions were at their best.”

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