"Where there is liquid water,
There will be Life!"
"The idea that there's liquid water on Mars today at the surface means that there could be life on Mars today at the surface."
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"Here we report the discovery of the spectral evidence for liquid water in flow-like and pondlike features of Mars polar region11. This suggests that liquid saline water forms sporadically on the surface and should be common in the shallow subsurface."
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Liquid saltwater is likely present on Mars, new analysis shows
"A large amount of independent physical and thermodynamical evidence shows that saline water may actually be common on Mars," said Nilton Renno, a professor in the U-M Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences and a co-investigator on the Phoenix mission.
"Our favored model at present for TSL formation is
that shallow brines mobilize thin flows"
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Evidence for summertime briny flows on Mars
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