Deliquescing salts taking up moisture from the Mars atmosphere: Difference between revisions

 

At night, the water activity is high enough for life, but it is too cold, and in the day time it is warm enough but too dry. The authors concluded that the conditions in the Curiosity region were probably beyond the habitability range for replication and metabolism of known terrestrial micro-organisms.<ref name=Rincon>{{cite web|last1=Rincon Science editor|first1=Paul|title=Evidence of liquid water found on Mars|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32287609|website=BBC News website|date=April 13, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Martín-TorresZorzano2015">{{cite journal|last1=Martín-Torres|first1=F. Javier|last2=Zorzano|first2=María-Paz|last3=Valentín-Serrano|first3=Patricia|last4=Harri|first4=Ari-Matti|last5=Genzer|first5=Maria|last6=Kemppinen|first6=Osku|last7=Rivera-Valentin|first7=Edgard G.|last8=Jun|first8=Insoo|last9=Wray|first9=James|last10=Bo Madsen|first10=Morten|last11=Goetz|first11=Walter|last12=McEwen|first12=Alfred S.|last13=Hardgrove|first13=Craig|last14=Renno|first14=Nilton|last15=Chevrier|first15=Vincent F.|last16=Mischna|first16=Michael|last17=Navarro-González|first17=Rafael|last18=Martínez-Frías|first18=Jesús|last19=Conrad|first19=Pamela|last20=McConnochie|first20=Tim|last21=Cockell|first21=Charles|last22=Berger|first22=Gilles|last23=R. Vasavada|first23=Ashwin|last24=Sumner|first24=Dawn|last25=Vaniman|first25=David|title=Transient liquid water and water activity at Gale crater on Mars|journal=Nature Geoscience|year=2015|issn=1752-0894|doi=10.1038/ngeo2412|volume=8|issue=5|pages=357–361|bibcode=2015NatGe...8..357M}}</ref>