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Water Recently On Mars?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Science

Could be.

Small gullies on Mars were carved by water recently and would be prime locations to look for life, NASA scientists said today.

There have been many studies of Martian gullies that concluded water was involved. But most of the features are ancient, or if they seemed modern then there were questions about how the water could stay liquid long enough to do the carving.

Scientists know there is a lot of water ice on Mars, locked up at the poles and beneath the surface elsewhere.

Water is a key ingredient for life as we know it, and other scientists have speculated that life on Mars, if there is any, could lurk just beneath the surface where ice melts in pockets.

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