Liquid Water Confirmed Beneath Martian South Polar Cap [SciTechDaily, February 2022]

Title:

Liquid Water Confirmed Beneath Martian South Polar Cap

 

By:

Southwest Research Institute

 

Published:

SciTechDaily, 4 February 2022

https://scitechdaily.com/liquid-water-confirmed-beneath-martian-south-polar-cap/

 

From the article:

A Southwest Research Institute scientist measured the properties of ice-brine mixtures as cold as -145 degrees Fahrenheit to help confirm that salty water likely exists between grains of ice or sediment under the ice cap at Mars’ south pole. 

Southwest Research Institute - Meteoric evidence found for a previously unknown asteroid [SciTechDaily, 23 December 2020]

Title:

Meteoric evidence found for a previously unknown asteroid

 

By:

Southwest Research Institute

 

Published:

SciTechDaily, 23 December 2020

https://scitechdaily.com/meteoric-evidence-found-for-a-previously-unknown-asteroid/

 

From the article:

A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists has identified a potentially new meteorite parent asteroid by studying a small shard of a meteorite that arrived on Earth a dozen years ago. The composition of a piece of the meteorite Almahata Sitta (AhS) indicates that its parent body was an asteroid roughly the size of Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt, and formed in the presence of water under intermediate temperatures and pressures.