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Mars’ Ionosphere: Cold, Lifeless, and Filled With Heavy Metals
« on: April 12, 2017, 05:43:18 pm »
   Date of Publication: 04.11.17.
 
 

Mars’ Ionosphere: Cold, Lifeless, and Filled With Heavy Metals

An artist's render of the MAVEN mission, upon arrival at Mars.NASA

Mars is Earth’s inhospitable cousin. And like anybody with a wayward family member, Earthlings can’t help trying to figure out what went wrong. So people throw a lot of money at the red planet, usually in the form of spacecraft. NASA’s Maven mission explores Mars’ upper atmosphere, puzzling over how a planet that was once wet and potentially habitable ended up a dry, cold desert world.

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/mars-ionosphere-cold-lifeless-filled-heavy-metals/
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Re: Mars’ Ionosphere: Cold, Lifeless, and Filled With Heavy Metals
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2017, 05:48:53 pm »
So, it's Finland?
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Re: Mars’ Ionosphere: Cold, Lifeless, and Filled With Heavy Metals
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2017, 07:03:15 pm »
Quote from: EC on April 12, 2017, 05:48:53 pm
So, it's Finland?
Nope, the water system in Flint.
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Re: Mars’ Ionosphere: Cold, Lifeless, and Filled With Heavy Metals
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2017, 07:43:46 pm »
Quote from: EC on April 12, 2017, 05:48:53 pm
So, it's Finland?

Finland definitely does heavy metal but at the far end of the scale. I think I'll stick with Anglo Metal.
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