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Bacteria could survive underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years, new study findsNew research suggests that signs of ancient Martian life could be out there – or rather, hidden just beneath the Martian surface, safe from harmful radiation.
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First Martian life likely broke the planet with climate change, made themselves extinctThe finding comes from a modeling study that assumes ancient Martian life was similar to that on Earth during the same time period.
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Mars was doomed to desiccationMars was doomed to desiccation by its small size, a new study suggests.
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Buried 'lakes' on Mars may just be frozen clayBright reflections that radar detected beneath the south pole of Mars may not be underground lakes as previously thought but deposits of clay instead, a new study finds.
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Curiosity rover discovers that evidence of past life on Mars may have been erasedThe findings from the Curiosity rover could help the Perseverance rover decide which samples to collect for later analysis.
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'Alien burp' may have been detected by NASA's Curiosity roverMethane tends to only be made by biological life, so scientists are wondering if the source is from alien microbes.
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NASA rover Perseverance survives death-defying plunge, lands safely on MarsNASA's rhinoceros-size Perseverance rover pulled off the most precise landing in Martian history Thursday (Feb. 18), touching down successfully in Jezero crater.
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Mars: Mounting evidence for subglacial lakes, but could they really host life?The best place for life on Mars might be more than a kilometre below its surface!
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NASA's next Mars rover will land in less than 100 daysThe life-hunting Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which launched on July 30, is scheduled to land inside Jezero Crater on the afternoon of Feb. 18, 2021.
