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December 15, 2016

First detection of boron on the surface of Mars
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Dec 14, 2016
Boron has been identified for the first time on the surface of Mars, indicating the potential for long-term habitable groundwater in the ancient past. This finding and others from NASA's Curiosity rover science team will be discussed in a press conference in San Francisco during the American Geophysical Union conference. "No prior mission to Mars has found boron," said Patrick Gasda, a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory. "If the boron that we found in calcium sulfate mineral ... read more

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