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Martian Soil Salts May Make Water Ice All Wet

Martian Soil Salts May Make Water Ice All Wet

Update: 2014-07-25
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Within a Mars-like laboratory environment, perchlorate salts known to exist on Mars were able to lower the freezing point enough to get ice to turn to liquid water. Clara Moskowitz reports   


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Martian Soil Salts May Make Water Ice All Wet

Martian Soil Salts May Make Water Ice All Wet

Scientific American

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