Washington - Following the announcement that scientists may have found evidence that water still flows to the surface of Mars, geologists said yesterday they had found evidence that, like Earth, Martian oceans were salty.
A team at Arizona State University and Los Alamos National Laboratory said they had been able to get an idea of what those long-dried-up oceans were like by looking at pieces of rock from Mars that fell to Earth.
Writing in the July issue of the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Carleton Moore of ASU and his team said they had analysed the inside of the 1.2 billion-year-old Nakhla meteorite, which fell on Egypt in 1911, and found water-soluble ions that probably would have been deposited by evaporating brine.