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March 13, 2013

NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2013
An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon - some of the key chemical ingredients for life - in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet last month. "A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment," said Mic ... read more

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				NASA rover finds conditions once suited to life on Mars Analysis of Mars rocks by the Curiosity rover uncovered the building blocks of life - hydrogen, carbon and oxygen - and evidence the planet could once have supported organisms, NASA said Tuesday. ... more		Neptec wins contract to develop cameras for European Space Agency's ExoMars Programme Neptec Design Group has signed a contract with Astrium UK Limited for the design and build of navigation cameras for the ExoMars Rover. The ExoMars Programme has the goals of understanding the ... more

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New 3-D reconstructions show buried flood channels on Mars New maps of the subsurface of Mars show for the first time buried channels below the surface of the red planet. Mars is considered to have been cold and dry over the past 2.5 billion years, but thes ... more		Mars rover 'sleeping' through solar storm NASA says the computers on its Mars rover Curiosity have been put to sleep to wait out a solar storm bombarding the Red Planet. ... more		GE and Lockheed validate compact rotating detonation ramjet for hypersonic missiles Danish PM says Greenland showdown at 'decisive moment' after new Trump threats Russia claims Oreshnik missile hit Ukrainian aviation plant		Curiosity Rover's Recovery on Track NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has transitioned from precautionary "safe mode" to active status on the path of recovery from a memory glitch last week. Resumption of full operations is anticipated by n ... more
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