Discovery of water on Mars tops scientific achievements of the ...
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The discovery of water on Mars was the scientific breakthrough of 2004, according to one of the world&#39;s leading science journals.
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NASA -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter begins working overtime today after completing a prime mission that discovered vast supplies of frozen water, ran a safety check for future astronauts, and mapped surface textures and minerals all over Mars, among other feats.     "Odyssey has accomplished all of its mission-success criteria," said Dr...
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By J. Craig Anderson, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Dec. 7--A Mars exploration team with strong ties to Arizona has uncovered the strongest visual evidence to date that water -- the most crucial substance for sustaining life -- is present on the Red Planet.
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NASA sees hint of liquid water on Mars    WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Images sent back by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter suggest the existence of liquid water on Mars which heightens the potential for microbial life on the Red Planet, NASA scientists said on Wednesday.
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An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the presence of water on Mars.
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This week, scientists f urther confirmed the presence of water on Mars, almost a year after the Mars Exploration Rovers landed on the fourth rocky planet from the sun.
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The Mars rover Spirit found a mineral linked to water during its exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Monday.
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A provocative new study of photographs taken from orbit suggests that liquid water flowed on the surface of Mars as recently as several years ago, raising the possibility that the Red Planet could harbor an environment favorable to life.
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Also: Nasa's Mars rovers--'biggest breakthrough' in science in 2004. [News.com Extra]
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Summary - (Oct 8, 2004) Now operating three times longer than originally expected, NASA&#39;s Mars Exploration Rovers are still turning up fresh evidence that liquid water once flowed on Mars.
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The Mars rover Opportunity has found new evidence of past existence of water on the Red Planet, NASA said. Opportunity keeps finding new clues of past water as it continues probing Mars, said mission scientists
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Stunning color images offer new evidence that plentiful water once percolated through Martian bedrock&#8212;and new hints as to where life might be hiding.
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The hills of Mars yielded more tantalizing clues about how water shaped the Red Planet in tests by NASA (news - web sites)&#39;s robotic geologist, Spirit, while its twin
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The hills of Mars yielded more tantalizing clues about how water shaped the Red Planet in tests by NASA&#39;s robotic geologist, Spirit, while its twin, Opportunity, observed the deep crater it climbed into two months ...
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Photographs of the Martian surface taken by an orbiting spacecraft have revealed powerful evidence that liquid water occasionally flows on the Red Planet's surface, an unexpected finding that suddenly increases the odds that the planet may harbor some kind of life.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming -- There is mounting evidence of the role of water  in Mars' evolution. That fact appears to have been favorable to the  development of life -- and the leftover calling card of past biology may be  preserved in that world's geologic record.
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Findings in the Martian atmosphere by the European Mars Express spacecraft orbiting the red planet correspond to areas where the US Mars Odyssey spacecraft has detected possible water ice just beneath the surface.