It was a search hundreds of years old. On Monday, NASA announced what so many have sought for so long – a groundbreaking discovery by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) of definitive evidence of recent salt water flows on Mars. The discovery confirms long-held suspicions and mounting evidence from MRO and places Mars into a category of a planet that until now only had one occupant – planets with current water flow activity.
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Belt-tightening at NASA has forced the space agency to cancel a planned $500 million Mars…
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The Chinese space program has resumed launches after going over a month without a single…
