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NASA—sopping wet mars

Composite image from microscopic imager showing once-wet Mars. [Image credit :Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech] Here are many more images of the crater where Oppurtunity found evidence of water

“ "NASA launched the Mars Exploration Rover mission specifically to check whether at least one part of Mars ever had a persistently wet environment that could possibly have been hospitable to life. Today we have strong evidence for an exciting answer: Yes." ”
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“The water evidence from the rocks' physical appearance comes in at least three categories, said Dr. John Grotzinger, sedimentary geologist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge: indentations called "vugs," spherules and crossbedding.”

However, no information as yet on how much water is now on Mars.

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02.03.2004

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