Spirit claims Mars water prize
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Mars rover Spirit has found its own compelling evidence that liquid water flowed at its landing site on the Red Planet.
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WASHINGTON - The discovery by a pair of wheeled robots that Mars once had vast pools of water and could have harboured life was chosen by the editors of the journal Science as the most important scientific achievement of 2004.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rovers have uncovered more tantalizing evidence of a watery past on the Red Planet, scientists said Wednesday. And the rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are continuing to do their jobs months after they were expected to ...
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LOS ANGELES -- After decades of scouring images of Mars for signs of water, scientists believe they have found stunning evidence that water may even now be flowing through the Red Planet's frigid surface.The news excited scientists who hunt for extraterrestrial life.
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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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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the presence of water on Mars.    Scientists long have debated whether water flowed on the red planet, with evidence increasing in recent years.
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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 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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Scientific proof that water once flowed on Mars has been voted the breakthrough of the year. The journal Science said the discovery topped a list of studies that stood out from the many thousands published by scientific journals this year.
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NASA&#39;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the Mars rover Spirit has found a mineral linked to water during its exploration of the Red Planet.
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LOS ANGELES - NASA&#39;s Spirit rover has found more evidence of past water on the hills of Mars, while its twin, Opportunity, has observed a field of dunes inside a crater.
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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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NASA&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity seems to have stumbled into something akin to a car wash that has left its solar panels much cleaner than those of its twin rover, Spirit.
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By ALICIA CHANG, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  LOS ANGELES  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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Images taken by NASA's Mars Global  Surveyor spacecraft suggest the presence of liquid water on the  Martian surface, a tantalizing find for scientists wondering if  the Red Planet ever has harbored life.
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Summary - (Aug 22, 2004) NASA&#39;s Spirit rover has dug up plenty of evidence on slopes of &quot;Columbia Hills&quot; that water once covered the area.
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An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the presence of water on Mars.