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Yea!...And that creates a puzzle.

From what I've read olivine is destroyed in a large body of sitting water....And then there are the abundances of salt in the soil.
They seem to contradict each other.
Perhaps the finely fragmented olivine was blasted out of a distant dry-crater,
long after any "hypothetical" body of water had disappeared from Gusev Crater. That might explain the salts.
If you're interested: The three peaks to the left of silicon are
sodium, magnesium, and aluminum. Sodium is the one of interest to me.
WEIGH IN, NICK!! WE NEED YOU!!!

cheers.

Jacob

"This planet has a 100 percent mortality rate."

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