Posted on 07/03/2016 6:32:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Curiosity discovered high levels of manganese oxide minerals in rocks investigated at a location called “Windjana” during the spring of 2014.
Manganese-oxide minerals require abundant water and strongly oxidizing conditions to form.
“Researchers found high levels of manganese oxides by using a laser-firing instrument on the rover. This hint of more oxygen in Mars’ early atmosphere adds to other Curiosity findings — such as evidence about ancient lakes — revealing how Earth-like our neighboring planet once was,” NASA reported.
The newly announced results stem from results obtained from the rovers mast mounted ChemCam or Chemistry and Camera laser firing instrument. ChemCam operates by firing laser pulses and then observes the spectrum of resulting flashes of plasma to assess targets’ chemical makeup.
“The only ways on Earth that we know how to make these manganese materials involve atmospheric oxygen or microbes,” said Nina Lanza, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, in a statement.
“Now we’re seeing manganese oxides on Mars, and we’re wondering how the heck these could have formed?”
The discovery is being published in a new paper in the American Geophysical Union’s Geophysical Research Letters. Lanza is the lead author.
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Earth’s future?
Perhaps that picture was taken on earth during the testing phase. The rovers were run through their paces in Mars-like environments, prior to launching them.
Then the Martian equivalent Leo DiCraprio destroyed the planet by flying here and there.
DiCaprio flies his Martian friends 6,000 miles ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3445934/posts
#21 tell me who or what is taking Curiosity’s picture?
This is being filmed in Idaho in Craters of the Moon.
You can glimpse a bit of it when looking at old footage of the moon landings when you you see pine trees.
Proof that the moon landings were fake........ they created by their own admission areas of the moon. True story.
http://v-e-n-u-e.com/Fields-of-the-Moon
” ‘... and oh8eleven have missed the point.’
BS. I don’t care what you call it or what you say it’s supposed purpose was. I say again ... thirty years, billions of dollars and 14 dead astronauts later - nothing. Indefensible.”
Dismissing this or that as “BS” doesn’t make it BS.
Unless, of course, oh8eleven cleaves to that school of thought that asserts that to give something a name is to control it. It’s a pre-modern school, one with adherents to witchcraft, voodoism, paganism and the like. Predates ancient times, even the written word.
It has no place in these United States, in the modern age. Or at least it deserves naught but dismissal itself. Americans who yearn for it imply that the country was never great. Less comfortingly, they give the lie to any claim that the nation deserves to survive.
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