Not Poo - toilet cleaner!!

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Well the big news wasn't poo, it was perchlorate - ClO4 (2minus) [boy, would subscripts and superscripts be useful!]. This is a strong oxidizing agent which will attack organic material and so be harmful to Earth-like life forms. It is also used in rocket engines as a source of oxygen and so its presence may be due to contamination by the Phoenix lander itself.

The tame relative of perchlorate, chlorite (ClO2) is used in common household bleach and toilet cleaners because it will also attack organic matter but is not as aggressive.

Full story at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ph...-20080804.html

[Jen]

Ok so Aliens do clean up after themselves they use toilet cleaner to clean up there poo! LMAO
Ok sorry guys i had to say that

[leinad (Dan)]

another article here:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j...0gdRAD92BQ7K00

This is quite intersting actually; could it support the means for use in rocket boosters from Mars? Possible Jump base to the outer Solar system.

Or could it mean that these are elements from the past; previous rockets/aerospace ships that could have left this perchlorate behind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchlorate