To: asb3pe
Bringing Mars Into The Iron Age"If you look at the soil composition of Mars, the one thing that really strikes you is that it's 5 to 14 percent iron oxide," said Dr. Peter Curreri, a materials scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. "It's almost ore-grade material."
108 posted on
01/07/2004 6:26:53 PM PST by
blam
To: blam
The second landing site was chosen primarly because it's got huge amounts of Hematite (Iron Ore) that may have been precipitated from water, the same way Earth's iron ore is.
To: blam
Excellent article, blam - thanks for passing that along!
126 posted on
01/07/2004 8:08:49 PM PST by
asb3pe
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