Tuesday, October 30, 2012

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Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 04:10 PM PDT
Today's Reuters Science News Headlines - Yahoo! News:

NASA rover finds Mars' soil similar to Hawaii's 
Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012 04:10 PM PDT
The robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity delivers a sample of Martian soil to the rover's observation tray for the first time in this NASA handout photoCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - In the first inventory of minerals on another planet, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity found soil that bears a striking resemblance to weathered, volcanic sand in Hawaii, scientists said on Tuesday. The rover uses an X-ray imager to reveal the atomic structures of crystals in the Martian soil, the first time the technology, known as X-ray diffraction, has been used to analyze soil beyond Earth. ...
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