Mars water tops science honours
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The discovery by Nasa&#39;s robotic rovers of a watery past on Mars has topped a an eagerly awaited list of the 10 key scientific advances of 2004.
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Exquisite colour images of the Martian surface give a tantalising glimpse into the Red Planet's watery past.
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After studying thousands of images from Mars, scientists now are convinced that liquid water once flowed on the surface of the red planet, increasing the odds that life may have existed there in the distant past.
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Bad news for aliens in charge of special effects The southern Martian ice cap is mostly made of water, according to those clever boffins* at MIT.â¦
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British researchers detect water in atmosphere of planet that circles star far beyond our solar system.
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The hills of Mars yielded more tantalizing clues about how water shaped the Red Planet in tests by NASA's robotic geologist, Spirit, while its twin, Opportunity, observed the deep crater it climbed into two months ago, scientists said on Wednesday.
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The final results of the Rover research will be reported next year, but a growing body of evidence shows that Mars had a great deal of water several billion years ago, about the same time life was emerging on Earth.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity found evidence for a lake or sea on Mars, and new research suggests the body of water was deep, large and long-lasting.
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Pictures of Martian gullies taken years apart suggest that liquid water still flows on the planetÂs surface.
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PASADENA, Calif. - A patch of Martian soil analyzed by NASA's rover Spirit is so rich in silica that it may provide some of the strongest evidence yet that ancient Mars was much wetter than it is now.
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London - An unexplained phenomenon akin to a space-borne carwash has boosted the performance of one of the two US rovers probing the surface of Mars, New Scientist magazine said on Tuesday.
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It&#39;s the discovery by two Mars rovers that the Red Planet once had water and possibly could have supported life. That recognition comes today from the journal Science.
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By JOHN JOHNSON JR.  NASA scientists announced Wednesday that they had found evidence that water still flows over the surface of Mars - sporadic gushers that increase the possibility that the Red Planet could harbor some form of life.
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The discovery of Mars&#39; watery past by NASA&#39;s Spirit and Opportunity rovers has been chosen as the key scientific advance of 2004 in an annual list compiled by Science magazine.
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THE Mars rover Opportunity has found new evidence of past existence of water on the Red Planet, NASA said today. Opportunity keeps finding new clues of past water as it continues probing Mars, said mission
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The conclusive discovery by a pair of wheeled robots that Mars once had vast pools of water and possibly could have harbored life was chosen by the editors of the journal Science
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Image: This map shows the estimated lower limit of the water content of the upper meter of Martian soil. &quot;Odyssey has accomplished all of its mission-success criteria,&quot; said Dr.