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Mars soil contains a huge amount of water, reports NASAs Curiosity rover

2013-09-27 17:02:41| Extremetech

If you heat up a cubic foot of Mars soil, you can harvest around two pints (one liter) of water. According to new data returned by NASA's Curiosity rover, this isn't just a one-off lucky find, either: It seems that most of the dirt on Mars harbors large amounts of water. This is very exciting news for future human exploration of Mars, because it's prohibitively difficult to transport water from the surface of Earth to the Red Planet -- and, in one fell swoop, it also makes the eventual terraforming and colonization of Mars a lot more feasible.

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AUDIO: Cable: Enormous amount to be done

2013-09-11 10:37:45| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Liberal Democrat Cabinet minister Vince Cable warns the government against complacency over the economy in a speech on Wednesday.

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Exxon Pipeline Rupture: Amount of Oil Spilled Is Still Guesswork

2013-08-21 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InsideClimate: Homeowners whose lives are still in limbo after thousands of gallons of oil streamed into their neighborhood from a ruptured pipeline on March 29 [3]might never know precisely how much of the sticky black goo oil actually spilled. The working estimate is that 5,000 barrels210,000 gallonsof Canadian heavy crude oil poured from a 22-foot break in ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline [4] on that Good Friday afternoon. But officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [5] and Exxon say the actual...

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