"Mr. Art" <mra### [at] chesapeakenet> wrote in message
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> Is there any Olivine here on Earth? I hope not.
> Its presents would mean that we couldn't have any water here.
>
> Or maybe with all the water gone, the Olivine had to be left behind.
> In large deposits.

Perhaps NASA and USGS people need to read about it here:
http://asups.ups.edu/~lhee/olivine/paper.html

:-)  Bob

> Thomas Lake wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately recent findings my NASA and USGS show that large quantities
of
> > water likely did NOT exist on Mars in the past. This is because they
discovers
> > large quantities of the mineral, olivine (I think that's how you spell it),
> > which is easily soluble in water. Too bad cause it would have been AMAZING
to
> > have discovered evidence of life on mars, not that this totally rules that
out
> > but it is another thing to but down in the "cons" column. Oh well there is
> > always Europa still:-)
> >

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