Mars` water was mineral-rich and salty New study finds surface waters on early Mars may have been habitable for microbial life.
(WorldNews Japan)

Curiosity on ancient lake sediments at Gale Crater, Mars NASA`s Curiosity rover has obtained the mineralogical and chemical data of ancient lake deposits at Gale Crater, Mars. The present study reconstructs water chemistry of the paleolake in Gale based on the Curiosity`s data. Credit: NASA Presently, Earth is the only known location where life exists in the Universe. This year the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three astronomers who proved, almost 20 years ago, that planets are common around stars beyond the solar system. Life comes in various forms, from cell-phone-toting organisms like humans to the ubiquitous micro-organisms that inhabit almost every square inch of the planet...