Jun 23

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The Mars Lander’s mission on the fourth planet from the Sun is a dream come true for many scientists who have been trying for decades to prove that there is indeed water on Mars, and that where there’s water, there could be life.

NASA’s Phoenix lander recently discovered chunks of bright materials near the surface of the planet, which at a first glance appeared to be ice. Mission investigators were convinced: could it be anything else?

At the time, the answer would have been yes, as some feared those could have been in fact salt deposits. However, their complete disappearance in just days after they had been uncovered made it clear: it was water ice, as scientists confirmed last week.

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May 28

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“The nice thing is we finally filled in a bit of a blank spot in the dinosaur map,” said Anne Schulp, a palaeontologist at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, who worked on the study.
dino saur footprints, Sauropod
“Until 10 years not even bones were known from the Arabian peninsula and at last we have some dinosaur tracks.”

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