In less than a week, our collective understanding of the amount of water on Mars has been totally revamped. First there was the announcement that liquid water is apparently at […]
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New Images Suggest Present-Day Sources of Liquid Water on Mars
In what could turn out to be a landmark discovery in the history of Mars exploration, imaging scientists using data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft have recently observed features […]
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Mars, Like Earth, is not a Simple Planet to Understand
(Editor’s note: originally published on NASAWatch.com) Today, a group of scientists sat before the world on TV and said “I don’t know”; “I am confused”; and “I laid awake at […]