Adding to the growing literature on possible life conditions on the Red Planet, new research from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows that there may be liquid water close to the surface of Mars. Experts state that a substance called calcium perchlorate has been found in the soil which lowers the freezing point of water so that it does not freeze into ice, but is liquid and present in the form of very salty water called brine. "We have discovered the substance calcium perchlorate in the soil and, under the right conditions, it absorbs water vapour from the atmosphere. Our measurements show that these conditions exist at night and just after sunrise in the winter," said Morten Bo Madsen, head of the Mars Group at the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen. Read more http://www.hindustantimes.com/world...elow-surface-nasa-study/article1-1337097.aspx
