Scientists have found new evidence of chloride minerals (salts, specifically) in several places on Mars, showing where water was once abundant and possibly offering evidence of former life on Mars. Using a Mars-orbiting camera made at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility, Mikki Osterloo and a team of scientists found and mapped these Martian chloride deposits in the planet's middle to low latitudes within old, cratered land all over the planet. Check it out:
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=6754
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