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Astrobiology Top 10: Trapped Rover Finds Evidence Of Water On Mars
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 31, 2010
The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis. Stratified soil layers with different compositions close to the surface led the rover science team to propose that thin films of water may have entered the ground from frost or snow. The seepage could have happened during cyclical climate changes in periods when Mars tilted farther on its axis. Th ... read more

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NASA: Next Mars rover will carry a laser
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Odyssey Orbiter Nears Martian Longevity Record
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