Boron On The Surface Of Mars



This finding and others from NASA’s Curiosity rover science team will be discussed in a press conference today in San Francisco during the American Geophysical Union conference. “No prior mission to Mars has found boron,” said Patrick Gasda, a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

“If the boron that we found in calcium sulfate mineral veins on Mars is similar to what we see on Earth, it would indicate that the groundwater of ancient Mars that formed these veins would have been 0- 60 degrees Celsius(32-140 degrees Fahrenheit and neutral-to-alkaline pH.” The temperature, pH, and dissolved mineral content of the groundwater could make it habitable.
