How Salt Might Be The Key To Finding Life on Mars
In our ongoing search for liquid water on Mars, scientists are now thinking that salt might be the key! How will salt change the game? Amy Shira Teitel joins DNews to discuss the history of...
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How do you search for life on other planets? Follow the water! Hi everyone, I’m Amy Teitel and I’m guest hosting for DNews. If you’re among the living you have something in common with every other life form on the planet: You need water to live. So it would make sense that if you find the substance necessary for life on Earth elsewhere, it increases the chances of finding extraterrestrial life. Now, we’ve never found liquid water on Mars, so it’s probably not the best place to be looking, right? We should be focussing our energies on the subsurface oceans on Titan and Europa, shouldn’t we? Well, maybe not. A new study from a team at the University of Michigan has found a way for liquid water to exist on the surface of Mars, and the key is salt. W...
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How do you search for life on other planets? Follow the water! Hi everyone, I’m Amy Teitel and I’m guest hosting for DNews. If you’re among the living you have something in common with every other life form on the planet: You need water to live. So it would make sense that if you find the substance necessary for life on Earth elsewhere, it increases the chances of finding extraterrestrial life. Now, we’ve never found liquid water on Mars, so it’s probably not the best place to be looking, right? We should be focussing our energies on the subsurface oceans on Titan and Europa, shouldn’t we? Well, maybe not. A new study from a team at the University of Michigan has found a way for liquid water to exist on the surface of Mars, and the key is salt. W...
