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Mars' minerals could be microbe made
ABC Science ^ | 5/23/2014 | Stuart Gary

Posted on 06/19/2014 4:35:53 PM PDT by JimSEA

Friday, 23 May 2014 Stuart Gary ABC

New Australian research suggests Martian minerals may have formed from biological rather than geological origins.

The findings, reported in the journal Geology, indicate the mineral stevensite, which is found on both Earth and Mars, can be created either in hot, highly alkaline volcanic lakes, or by mineralisation in living microbes.

Stevensite is a magnesium-silicate mineral, used a Nubian beauty treatment for several centuries.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: australia; biology; geology; mars; xplanets
The smoking gun or a product of ancient volcanism on Mars?
1 posted on 06/19/2014 4:35:54 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA
Sorry! the link to the full article is here.
2 posted on 06/19/2014 4:38:25 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA

Oh please, Mars, once an ocean planet once rivaling Earth’s own.. There’s a lot more than a few microbes out there ..

Not to mention all the fossilized stuff they found years ago,, oh and don’t forget ancient citiesmand remnants and remains thereof,, we’ll get there eventually..Allah willing. :-)


3 posted on 06/19/2014 4:43:33 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: JimSEA

Maybe ancient Nubians transported the mineral to Mars in the first place.


4 posted on 06/19/2014 4:44:08 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman
Nubian Beauty...

Take me to your leader ... Please!

5 posted on 06/19/2014 4:55:08 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Sirens of Phobos?


6 posted on 06/19/2014 4:58:51 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: JimSEA

Maybe that explains those mysterious lights:

https://www.google.com/search?q=mysterious+light+on+mars&rlz=1C2PRFB_enUS546US546&tbm=isch&imgil=4cmfI8GigXM_OM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcTHidWtR6xHgWdFZsSVSatp1yDAEhAQGaM_vPKKjU2yLtER0Bfn%253B600%253B350%253Buk1VC4EWvLnT6M%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.coasttocoastam.com%25252Farticle%25252Fmysterious-light-on-mars&source=iu&usg=__Orqn97RJhbP4vW1psV5xEWbZ1no%3D&sa=X&ei=b3mjU7CcC83woASD94KYDQ&ved=0CDwQ9QEwBA&biw=961&bih=520#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=4cmfI8GigXM_OM%253A%3Buk1VC4EWvLnT6M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.coasttocoastam.com%252Fcimages%252Fvar%252Fezwebin_site%252Fstorage%252Fimages%252Fcoast-to-coast%252Frepository%252Fphotos%252Fmysterious-light-on-mars%252F764545-1-eng-US%252FMysterious-Light-On-Mars.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.coasttocoastam.com%252Farticle%252Fmysterious-light-on-mars%3B600%3B350


7 posted on 06/19/2014 5:05:43 PM PDT by Vinylly (?%)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Nubian beauty... to Achmed.


8 posted on 06/19/2014 5:10:08 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala

and better teeth than the British


9 posted on 06/19/2014 5:11:58 PM PDT by advertising guy ( <------------- lotta white in here ------------>)
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To: JimSEA


More life-on-Mars "evidence."
10 posted on 06/19/2014 5:20:37 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: samtheman

Inter-solar system spit swapping if ya will.. Asteroid and larger body induced..

Objects hit one planet and force ejecta out into space and sometimes , stuff lands on other planets or just floats around

If it hasn’t need sold on QVC or HSN already once it hits here, it’s probably just space junk.


11 posted on 06/19/2014 5:28:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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Been=Need


12 posted on 06/19/2014 5:29:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: JimSEA

“The smoking gun or a product of ancient volcanism on Mars?”

The way I see it there, are clouds of just about everything
you can think of just floating around way out there in
space. Planets covered in methane. How did that get there?

And then there are these things. Tardigrades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W194GQ6fHI


13 posted on 06/19/2014 5:56:00 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: JimSEA

The “Life On Mars” thing reeks of desperation by the science/atheism community. We’ve sent rovers and can’t find a thing, so let’s make a lot of lame suppositions.


14 posted on 06/19/2014 6:09:01 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Mmogamer; ...
Nah. Thanks JimSEA.
 
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15 posted on 06/19/2014 7:08:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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