.THE app of Bayesian contradiction to a stable of lithologic criteria in an evaluation of seismic records hardly seems to be the stuff of headings. Yet when the seismic records you are examining come from Mars, as well as when your reasoning suggests that the best illustration for all of them is actually liquefied water in the pores in between stones, you have a story. There is little people thirst for extra, when it pertains to earthly science, than water on Mars. Why performs the prospect produce such pleasure-- and what performs this brand-new research study include in the tale?