[Paradox]

I found this link on the space.com message boards. Two of the guys at the conference tommorrow ,John Grotzinger and Benton Clark, are going to publish this paper, along with some other authors, this month.

Transient Liquid Water as a Mechanism for Induration of Soil Crusts on Mars

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for the heads up and link.

Induration, huh? Don't hear that word very often. ;-]

[Don Joe]

Clicking on the author names from that link, and then clicking on "Author Query" from the resultant page, returns some interesting previous publications. Several listings dealing with specifically with biological research in Martian and similar environments for some of the authors.