So there is a tremendous database about Mars that we're still exploring, we're still mining.
Astrobiological researchers have discovered significant regions below the surface of Mars that could be habitable for Earth-based life.
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream.
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It also gives us a glimpse of ancient surface and environmental conditions on Mars that no other meteorite has ever offered.
The knowledge being gained about these processes helps scientists interpret evidence about environmental changes on Mars that might have led to conditions favorable for life.
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In the meantime, for the sake of the citizens in the peripheral eurozone nations now facing fiscal retrenchment, pray there is life on Mars that exclusively consumes olives, red wine, and Guinness beer.
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Now, using a camera onboard an orbiting probe called Mars Global Surveyor, scientists think they may have spotted something on the surface of Mars that is a good candidate for the remains of this NASA craft.
These have shown that Mars had vast oceans in the past, and went on to demonstrate, after this book went to press, that Mars still has lots of ice beneath its surface.
Mr. McCOLLOM: We now have this tremendous data set that's being returned by the Mars rover that--I mean, we wouldn't have any debates if that data wasn't there.
"The results suggest that water was incorporated during the formation of Mars and that the planet was able to store water in its interior during the planet's differentiation, " Hauri said.
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The second reason we're interested in Mars is we believe that Mars has experienced catastrophic climate change over its history.
In a section on water in outer space we learn that there is a lake-size layer of ice on the moon's south pole, that Mars once had rivers, that there is steam in the sun's atmosphere.
Its abundance on Mars suggests that the planet has been cold and dry throughout most of its history.
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Curiosity is twice as long, five times as heavy and vastly better equipped than two previous NASA Mars rovers that landed in 2004.
So one of the data sets I will make available is variables and measurements from hundreds of thousands of Mars craters that have been mapped.
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His argument was that the technique, which makes many copies of a piece of DNA, would be so cheap to put on a Mars probe that it would be silly not to.
Indeed, there's geologic evidence from the rover and from NASA's Mars orbiters that there may once have been a large lake and streams within the basin that Curiosity is driving around in now.
Micro-organisms on Earth are much more common in fresh water than acidic water, and so rather than Mars just having been a potential haven for some extreme forms of life, Curiosity's discovery means that Mars had -- and still preserves evidence of -- environments that were habitable for an enormous variety of micro-organisms that thrive on our own planet.
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The exhibit also features a console that gives visitors the feeling of flying around Mars and zooming in on its surface features, as well as a Mars terraforming game that runs on a multi-touch table.
And in perhaps the week's oddest story, the Dutch nonprofit Mars One announced that it is now accepting applications for a four-person Mars colony with hopes of establishing a permanent settlement on the Red Planet.
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"The circumstantial evidence indicates that the signals came from Mars, and if that is the case there is a good chance they came from the Lander, " he added.
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Evidence from the spacecraft NASA has sent to Mars so far suggests that the "warm and wet" period on Mars lasted for the first billion years of the planet's history.
Chemical analysis of martian meteorites has revealed that Mars boasts more manganese than Earth.
Using aerobraking means that Mars Odyssey did not need to be fitted with special retro-rockets.
Still, extreme conditions or not, it meant that Mars could have been habitable for some forms of life.
And we also believe that Mars had planetary-scale oceans in the northern hemisphere.
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