Massive asteroid remains found on Mars: THE remains of the largest asteroid impact crater known anywhere in the solar system have been identified on Mars, explaining the origin of the lowland basin that dominates the planet’s northern hemisphere. [Australian]
Martian soil ‘could grow asparagus’: MARTIAN dirt is apparently good enough for asparagus to grow in, NASA scientists said yesterday, as they announced the results of a soil analysis collected by the US Phoenix Mars lander. “There is nothing about the soil that would preclude life. In fact it seems very friendly,” said Samuel Kounaves, the project’s lead chemist at the University of Arizona in a telephone press conference. [Australian]
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