The Case for Spirit's Water a truly desolate place by Astrobiology MagazineMoffett Field - Mar 09, 2004On the heels of the announcement that the Opportunity site on Mars was 'soaked' in water some time in its distant past, the rover teams have identified candidates for trace water at the Gusev crater site. "We're not talking about alot of water," said Dr. Ray Avridson, the Deputy Principal Investigator and a geologist at Washington University at St. Louis. "The rock to water ratio would be huge [at Spirit] relative to what we see at Opportunity." The new findings center on a 60...
