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Article: LIFE ON MARS?(Brief Article)
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- Science World
- Article date:
- September 4, 2000
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In a revelation that could clinch the age-old mystery--"Is there life in outer space?"--NASA scientists have reported astonishing new evidence of liquid water on Mars. "The discovery has profound implications for the prospect of Martian life not only in the past but maybe even today," says Ed Weiler, NASA space science chief.
Close-up photos from orbiting Mars Global Surveyor clearly show gullies--trenches chiseled by water--that were probably formed by liquid water seeping right beneath the Martian surface, explains NASA researcher Michael Malin. (New Surveyor images reveal the smallest details ever captured on the Red Planet's surface--about the size of an ...
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