Word: mud
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...looks like mud, but it can't be mud." Dr. Steven W. Squyres, scientist with NASA's Spirit mission to Mars, after viewing pictures of the planet's surface. The mission's rovers will scour the surface for evidence of water...
Mohammad Sarfarz Khan strides up a short mud path to a tunnel dug into the hillside, enters and disappears. The 61-year-old Kashmiri villager is sure-footed in the gloom, feeling his way around the shelter with practiced confidence. When he reaches the inner bunker, Khan pulls a blanket around his shoulders and peers out of a small window. It is from here that, since 1989, he has watched thousands of Indian and Pakistani artillery shells describe golden arcs as they split the air of the valley below. "I suppose we were lucky," he says, of surviving 14 years...
...TIME.com: Have any of the initial discoveries been surprising? Kluger: The biggest surprise so far is the dark patch of dirt that was dragged by Spirit's airbags during landing. It resembles mud, but it can't be mud, because of the absence of water, and therein lies the mystery. Mars may have at one time held water, and one place it might be found is the Gusev Crater, an area about the size of Connecticut that was Spirit's landing spot. The crater may have once been a lake, and scientists feel that spot gives us the best chance...
...Most Detailed Image of Mars Shows Mysterious Substance - A Washington Post report on the mud-like substance that has proven to be a mystery on a surface that was expected to have been bone...
...might have been the sound of wheels spinning in mud, or perhaps the chattering whine of a tortured transmission. Or it might have been the increasingly loud imprecations I was directing at my driver. Whatever the cause, we had suddenly become the focus of several hundred wild elephants. Those nearest began to stomp toward us, thumping their trunks on the ground...