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Date: 2008/9/8<br>Subject: [Eapsdls] DEPARTMENT LECTURE SERIES - September 10<br>To: <a href="mailto:eapsdls@mit.edu">eapsdls@mit.edu</a><br><br><br>
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Sciences</div>
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DEPARTMENT LECTURE SERIES</div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>Professor Nilton O.
Renno</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000">Department of Atmospheric,
Oceanic and Space Sciences</font></div>
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Michigan</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000">"Physical and
Thermodynamical Evidence of Deliquescence and Liquid Water on
Mars</font>"</div>
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<div align="center">The objective of the Phoenix Mars mission is to
determine if Mars' polar region can support life. Since liquid water
is a basic ingredient of life, as we know, an important goal of the
mission is to determine if liquid water exists in the region. We show
physical evidence that liquid water currently exists in areas
disturbed by the Phoenix lander. Moreover, we show that freezing/thaw
cycles ranging from diurnal to climatic time-scales leads to the
formation of solutions with freezing temperatures much higher than
those currently found in a large fraction of the regions where Mars
Odyssey's Gamma Ray Spectrometer detected near surface water. Thus,
we hypothesize that liquid saline-water is common on Mars.</div>
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<div><b>DATE: Wednesday, September 10,
2008</b></div>
<div><b>PLACE: Building 54, Room 915 (Green
Building)</b></div>
<div><b>TIME: 4:00 to 5:00 pm</b></div>
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<div align="center">The EAPS Department Lecture Series schedule may be
found at <a href="http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/index.html" target="_blank">http://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/index.html</a></div>
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