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> For the water to be liquid, it must be so salty that nothing could live there, he said. “The short answer for habitability is it means nothing,” he said. Thi
by coryfklein 11y ago
> For the water to be liquid, it must be so salty that nothing could live there, he said. “The short answer for habitability is it means nothing,” he said.
This dose of realism dampens my enthusiasm slightly, but if we can find such clear signs of water via satellite image I think it is a great indication that water is more present at the surface than previously thought.
- smchang 11y agoAlthough, just a couple of paragraphs down >“If it was too salty, they would be flowing year round,” Dr. Stillman said. “We might be in that Goldilocks zone.”