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NASA: Liquid water once on Mars
I was surfing the net like normal and ran across this interesting article.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/0...ngs/index.html

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Red planet may have been hospitable to life
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(CNN) -- Mission accomplished.

NASA scientists say the Mars rovers have found what they were looking for -- hard evidence that the red planet was once "soaking wet."


"We have concluded the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University. He's the principal investigator for the science instruments on Opportunity and its twin rover, Spirit.

"The second question we've tried to answer: Were these rocks altered by liquid water? We believe definitively, yes," Squyres said.

Squyres and other NASA officials made the announcement at NASA headquarters in Washington, after several days of giving tantalizing hints that something significant had been discovered.
Some of the stories associated with the graphical pictures at this link also tell the story.


http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/p...20040302a.html


Very interesting....
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