Word: waterbound
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...Planet. The soil seemed to consist of a fine-grained reddish material interspersed with small blue-black or blue-green patches. Many of the rocks were also coated with a reddish stain, strongly suggesting the presence of iron that had rusted in the presence of atmospheric or waterbound oxygen. Other rocks, blue-green and opalescent, reminded some scientists of copper ore. After correcting the color values on the photograph, scientists decided that the sky, which looked blue in the original print, was really of a pinkish hue. All in all, the view, far from being alien and forbidding, seemed almost...
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