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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Mars' Core:  Syrupy Goop?

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/m … 6.html]But hey, if there's chocolate there -- !

*Just kidding of course.    I like their comment about Mars' core maybe being similar to the "syrupy goop found inside a chocolate-covered fruit candy." 

I checked Search.  Although the article is dated 2003, I can't find a reference to "squishy."

Anyway, very interesting.  Not sure it really belongs in *this* folder, but didn't want to put it in Science & Technology, as it pertains to Mars.  ::shrugs:: 

...might tie in with microbes too, somehow... 

Cool article.

--Cindy

P.S.:  Check out info about the effect of tides and the Sun.

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 29,431

Re: Mars' Core:  Syrupy Goop?

Seems interesting in that if the core is not solid that maybe a magnetic field might be possible in the future as we teraform mars.

Maybe when we are able to send Seismic equipment and other such sensors in order to determine the core parametrics we then will know if it is possible.