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I don't remember seeing any discussion of this at SDC. I'm wondering <br />if anyone here, particularly Jon Clarke, has some thoughts about it.<br /><br /><i>"The site where the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed has sediments <br />and layered structures that are thought to be formed by the evaporation of an <br />acidic salty sea....However, ASU geologists L. Paul Knauth and Donald Burt, who <br />along with Kenneth Wohletz of Los Alamos National Laboratory, say that base <br />surges resulting from massive explosions caused by meteorite strikes offer a <br />simpler and more consistent explanation for the rock formations and sediment <br />layers found at the Opportunity site."</i> <br />http://www.asu.edu/news/stories/200512/20051222_mars_meteorites.htm<br /><br />More papers on the above-mentioned theory: <br />http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2007/pdf/1922.pdf<br />http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2007/pdf/1757.pdf<br />http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=10957<br /><br />One of the authors of this theory, Donald Burt, is currently responding<br />to questions and comments in this thread at unmannedspaceflight.com <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>