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To: wolfcreek

How do they know for certain that the rocks came from Mars?


13 posted on 01/18/2012 12:41:09 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: GreenHornet

“How do they know for certain that the rocks came from Mars?”

Ever hear of a rock coming from Jupiter? Silly sausage!


15 posted on 01/18/2012 12:50:53 PM PST by Dogbert41
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To: GreenHornet
How do they know for certain that the rocks came from Mars?

Consensus. This would be an example of the now common methodology in science, i.e., everyone agrees to agree on something that is unsupportable with the facts, so that they can move on to the next hypothesis.

17 posted on 01/18/2012 12:56:44 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: GreenHornet
How do they know for certain that the rocks came from Mars?

We have sent mass spectrometers to the mars surface, and know it's compositional characteristics very well.
18 posted on 01/18/2012 12:57:43 PM PST by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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To: GreenHornet

The gas trapped inside cavities inside the rock match precisely the sampled atmosphere on Mars. We’ve had landers on Mars since 1976 or so and we’ve got a pretty good idea what it’s made of and the trace elements in the atmosphere.


19 posted on 01/18/2012 1:01:59 PM PST by muir_redwoods (No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
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To: GreenHornet
"How do they know for certain that the rocks came from Mars?"

It says right on the back "Made in Mars."


24 posted on 01/18/2012 2:17:46 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Democrats:always looking for someone else to blame)
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