Sentences with phrase «water bearing minerals»
The planet's water then reacted with the rocks to form a variety of water bearing minerals.
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Researchers have suspected that abundant aqueous fluid exists in the deep mantle, ferried there by slabs bearing water - rich minerals that shed their water when they reach the transition zone (SN: 7/12/14, p. 9).
The team found ices and minerals bearing water, iron, complex organic materials, and exotic cyanide compounds not previously seen on other solar - system objects.
An infrared scanner aboard the probe detected scattered deposits of water - bearing minerals.
Opportunity is currently exploring clay - bearing rocks in Mars» Marathon Valley for evidence of minerals that formed in water.
«Ceres has evidence of ammonia - bearing hydrated minerals, water ice, carbonates, salts, and now organic materials.
The false - color infrared image (right) reveals features that could not be seen in visible light, including variations in the abundance and distribution of water - bearing minerals.
Acid mine drainage (AMD) refers to the outflow of acidic water from coal or metal mines, often abandoned ones where ore - or coal mining activities have exposed rocks containing the sulphur - bearing mineral pyrite.
Indeed, the presence of these deposits, and the water - bearing minerals buried within, could contain a record of an ancient, habitable environment on Mars.
You can also soak in the property's on - site hot baths, which are fed by warm mineral water from a nearby artesian bore.