As fall approaches Mars’ northern plains, NASA’s Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet’s soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for analysis. Over the past two weeks, Phoenix’s nearly 2.4- meter-long (8 feet) arm moved a rock, nicknamed “Headless”, about 0.4 meters (16 inches), and snapped an image of the rock with its camera. Then, the robotic arm scraped the soil underneath the rock and delivered a few teaspoonfuls of soil onto the lander’s optical and atomic10 force microscopes. These microscopes are part of Phoenix’s Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer (MECA). Scientists are conducting preliminary analysis of this soil, nicknamed “Galloping Hessian”. The soil piqued their interest because it may contain a high concentration of salts, said Diana Blaney, a scientist on the Phoenix mission with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
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Based on the text above, judge the following item.
“Galloping Hessian” loam should be rich in salt.