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Water still flows on Mars, potentially harboring life – and we need to be careful not to contaminate it

Water still flows on Mars, potentially harboring life – and we need to be careful not to contaminate it

Water flows freely on the surface of Mars. Wait, what? In recent months, NASA’s Curiosity rover has confirmed that Mars, millions of years ago, used to be covered in free-flowing rivers. According to some new imagery from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and analysis by Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, however, it appears that water still flows on the ...

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