According to Nilton Renno, one of the mission's chief scientists, the blotches on the leg are probably drops of brine.

ECONOMIST: Water on Mars

The meeting included also an itinerant exhibition, promoted in Brazil by UNESCO and Embassy of France, on the International Year of Biodiversity between 21st and 23rd October at Nilton Lins School in Manaus.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN BRASILIA

Nilton Sacenco, Suframa's deputy superintendent, says that new rules will distinguish between a computer with good speakers (tax breaks available all over Brazil) and a domestic appliance with added Internet access (tax breaks in Amazonia only).

ECONOMIST: Brazil��s industrial policy