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- "Scientists
Report Evidence of Saltwater Pools on Mars." ...
"Mars was once a much warmer, wetter place, with pools of saltwater that
sometimes flowed across the surface, scientists reported Tuesday." ...
"Analyzing findings from sedimentary rocks explored by the rover Opportunity,
the scientists said the rocks now appeared to have formed under a shallow
bed of softly flowing water near a shoreline — not, as formerly seemed
possible, through seepage from underground." -By Warren
E. Leary -NYTimes
via -Google-News
- "Life
was viable on Mars: Rover digs up history of abundant
briny water on Red Planet." ... "The Mars rover Opportunity has discovered
powerful evidence that water once drenched the surface of Mars and made
the planet habitable for life during some unknown epoch in the distant
past, NASA scientists announced Tuesday." ... "For the first time since
astronomers and planetary visionaries began speculating about water and
life on the Red Planet centuries ago, the historic new findings from the
Mars rover mission appear to have pinned down the long-cherished idea that
Mars in fact once held a warm, wet environment where life could well have
flourished." -By David Perlman
-SFGate.com
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- "Mercury
damage 'irreversible'." ... "Scientists at the Harvard
School of Public Health have found that methyl mercury contamination of
seafood can cause heart damage and irreversible impairment to brain function
in children, both in the womb and as they grow." ... ""If something happens
in the brain at development, you don't get a second chance," says lead
researcher Philippe Grandjean." ... "Grandjean and his colleagues report
in the Journal of Pediatrics that electrical signals in the brains
of children exposed to mercury aren't transmitted as quickly as in unexposed
children. They also found that mercury appears to weaken the heartbeat."
-By Elizabeth Weise -USATODAY
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Egypt
- Water
- "Crews
Find 'Black Box' From Egypt Plane Crash, Says Item Is Too Deep for Immediate
Retrieval." ... "[French] Rear Adm. Jacques Mazars
told reporters at the popular resort [city of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt] that
more advanced equipment was needed to retrieve the box, which was believed
to be 1,970 to 2,620 feet below the sea's surface." ... "A robot submarine
sent by the French can operate no deeper than 1,320 feet. The seabed in
the area drops at one point to about 3,300 feet."
-AP via -ABCNEWS.com
