And with space battles, phaser combat, and general exploration, it seems to have the ingredients of a good action-adventure game.

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Jan Willem Eggink, Shell's South Africa general manager for exploration, says the company needs to explore to determine how it could extract gas from the region.

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And he was a very important contributor to the early Mars missions and to the general interest in planetary exploration.

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