Spirit Rover Finds New Evidence for Mars Water
Credit: NASA/JPL/CORNELL UNIVERSITY
A patch of Martian soil analyzed by NASA's Spirit Mars Exploration Rover is so rich in silica that it provides strong new evidence that the rover's Gusev Crater landing site was wet and possibly habitable by Martian microbial life in the ancient past. The rover's German-built alpha particle X-ray...
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