石作为火星上限水的化学气候变化的指标

M E Elwood Madden1, R J Bodnar, J D Rimstidt

  • 1Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA. melwood@vt.edu

Nature
|October 16, 2004
PubMed
概括

火星探测车机遇号发现了石,表明过去的潮湿,酸性条件. 随后的干旱条件阻止了它的分解,保存了这些证据.

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