Thursday, September 26, 2013

Probe "Curiosity" says Martian soil has 2% water - News Journal

probe “Curiosity” NASA allowed to discover that the Martian soil consists of about 2% of water, which moisturize d hope that one day humans explore the planet red.

“Nsvamos Mars as a very dry desert and although this is in the amount of water we found in the soil of the earth (…) substantial,” he said on Thursday Laurie Leshin, lead author of the study published in the journal Science.

According to the same scientist at 0.03 cubic meters of Martian soil, which roughly corresponds to a block with a p width, height and depth, it is possible to get 0.47 liters of water .

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j, space agency has no plans to send humans to Mars, but the United States already said they intend to get there early humans by 2030.

Signs of water in neighboring planet earth Noso a novelty, but the latest evidncia comes from a set of 10 of the most sophisticated instruments ever sent to scour the surface of Mars, aboard the Curiosity probe, which landed on the planet in 2012.

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