Author: blues517blues517
Date: Jul 7, 2008 10:23
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On Jul 6, 10:32 pm, Lin Liangtai yahoo.com.tw> wrote to
several news groups::
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NASA is trying to shake loose Martian fossil bone tissue
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Fig. 1 shows nine arrows pointing to vertical blood vessel remains in
nine fossil osteons ( bone tissue) in a trench named Snow White.
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NASA says the white color area is where water ice is, although it is
non-continuous and very small in size.
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NASA plans to scoop up the water ice there on
July 8 to put it into an oven for testing. As the soil
(containing water ice) is unusually clumpy, NASA plans to shake the
soil until it passes the 1mm holes of a screen above the oven, just
as NASA did last time.
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Such shaking could damage related instruments. Have you heard of
shaking loose bone tissues, fossilized ...
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