One intriguing possibility: If fluid water does persist on Mars, life that might have thrived there millions of years ago, when the climate was warmer and wetter, could be hanging on in thin layers
of salty water just beneath the surface.
Not exact matches
The ratio
of salt to
water seems extremely high, but don't worry, you won't be eating all
of that salt, the
water just needs to be that
salty for the seeds to take on as much flavour as possible.
Summer ice, as it forms, rejects salt, leading to the creation
of dense,
salty waters just below the ice.
Once researchers gave them bowls
of very
salty water, they,
just like normal mice, would not drink it.
When animals treated this way had been deprived
of salt, they did not distinguish between
salty water and plain
water, a paper from Zuker's lab reported —
just as you would expect if that channel, called ENaC, were required for tasting salt.
Within this crater the Opportunity rover —
just slightly too small to see here — is studying the landscape up close, finding evidence
of ancient,
salty waters on Mars.
Researchers say this antifreeze effect makes it possible for liquid
water to be widespread
just below the surface
of Mars, but point out that even if it is there, it may be too
salty to support life as we know it.
But in the longer term, thousands
of years from now,
waters in the North Pacific may eventually become warm and
salty enough to establish a PMOC,
just as there was in the Pliocene.
Still, critics argue that any perceived flavor is
just the after - effect
of whatever we tasted earlier, such as the sweetness
of water after we eat
salty food.
I drink a lot
of water, I'm relatively low carb (
just fruits and veggies most
of the time), I drink caffeine most days, I avoid processed and
salty foods most
of the time and I exercise regularly.
Sandy toes,
salty hair, endless amount
of Spanish food and a few snaps
just before drowning myself in the sea
water.
As a result, while a layer
of ice - cold fresh
water sits
just beneath the sea ice, about 20 meters (65 feet) down there is a layer
of denser,
saltier water that has been gradually warmed by the sun's rays.
Because surface
water that evaporates leaves nearly all
of its salt behind, the surface becomes
saltier — and if it becomes more dense than the underlying
water, it sinks, sometimes in great blobs that do not mix very well with underlying
waters,
just like Dan's cream.
The thought
of not tilting my head at the exact right angle and possibly gagging on a mixture
of burning
salty water was
just too much for me to handle.