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Article: NASA Spacecraft Sees Ice on Mars Exposed by Meteor Impacts
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 24, 2009
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Contact: Dwayne Brown, Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358-
1726, dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov, or Guy Webster, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., +1-818-354-6278,
guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov, both of NASA
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed frozen water hiding just below
the surface of mid-latitude Mars. The spacecraft's observations were
obtained from orbit after meteorites excavated fresh craters on the
Red Planet.
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Scientists controlling instruments on the orbiter found bright
ice exposed at five Martian sites with new craters that ...