Martian meteorite may hold clues to water on the Red Planet
Monday, May 24, 2010 - 05:30
in Astronomy & Space
Scientists are examining fragments of a Martian meteorite to try to establish when water was freely flowing on the red planet. Using powerful electron microscopes, Dr Martin Lee and colleagues at the University of Glasgow are painstakingly scanning a tiny chunk of a meteorite called Nakhla, which fell to Earth in 1911, reputedly hitting a dog in Egypt...