October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
...concentrations) that can be present in a martian brine for that brine to be potentially habitable. Knowing your salts Not... be globally distributed on the martian surface, and these brines experience a moderate lowering of their freezing point in the ...
11 May 2020
Martian brines likely to be present, just not habitable says new study
... Astronomy, indicate that although high-water-activity solutions may be stable on present-day Mars, the corresponding brine temperature is systematically below 210 K (-63.15 degrees Celsius), which is well below the temperature limits for life. Water...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
... Occator crater, Raymond, who is based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, found that there is evidence to support an extensive brine reservoir that could stretch around the dwarf planet. Helping to cement the hypothesis is the new detection...
28 September 2020
String of underground lakes found under Mars' South Pole
... string of underground salty lakes is tantalising, as despite the high salinity, several forms of algae and even brine shrimp and brine flies can tolerate these conditions on Earth; although martian microbes would have significant cooler temperatures...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... terajoules of kinetic energy at lakeside. Kinetic energy is stored via pump turbines as potential energy in elevated hydroelectric brine reservoirs. The channel can be viewed as a useful first ‘canal’ on Mars. Expert knowledge acquired by starting...
03 May 2016
Martian Seasonal Streaks May be Caused by Boiling Water
... was published in Nature Geoscience that concluded that the lines on Martian slopes may be streaks of super-salty brine. The report said that evidence had been found in the lines of “hydrated” salt minerals, which require...
