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  Scientists Discover How the World's Saltiest Pond Gets Its Salt

  February 7, 2013 — Antarctica's Don Juan Pond exists only because its high salinity -- the highest of any body of water on the planet -- keeps it from freezing. New researcher finds that water sucked out of the air by ... > full story
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  Weekend Test on Mars Was Preparation to Drill a Rock

  February 4, 2013 — The bit of the rock-sampling drill on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity left its mark on a Martian rock this weekend during brief testing of the tool's percussive ... > full story
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  Fossilized Conduits Suggest Water Flowed Beneath Martian Surface

  January 29, 2013 — Networks of narrow ridges found in impact craters on Mars appear to be the fossilized remnants of underground cracks through which water once flowed, according to a new analysis. The study bolsters ... > full story
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  Mars Rover Curiosity Maneuver Prepares for Drilling

  January 28, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has placed its drill onto a series of four locations on a Martian rock and pressed down on it with the rover's arm, in preparation for using the drill in coming ... > full story
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  Thawing 'Dry Ice' Drives Groovy Action on Mars

  January 25, 2013 — Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter see seasonal changes on far-northern Martian sand dunes caused by warming of a winter blanket of frozen carbon ... > full story
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  Mars Rover Curiosity Uses Arm Camera at Night

  January 24, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has for the first time used the camera on its arm to take photos at night, illuminated by white lights and ultraviolet lights on the ... > full story
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  NASA's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th Year

  January 22, 2013 — NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, one of the twin rovers that bounced to airbag-cushioned safe landings on Mars nine years ago this week, is currently examining veined rocks on the rim of an ... > full story
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  Mars' Reull Vallis: A River Ran Through It

  January 22, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Mars Express imaged the striking upper part of the Reull Vallis region of Mars with its high-resolution stereo camera last year. Reull Vallis, the river-like structure in ... > full story
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  Mars May Have Supported Life: Martian Underground Could Contain Clues to Life's Origins

  January 20, 2013 — Minerals found in the subsurface of Mars, a zone of more than three miles below ground, make for the strongest evidence yet that the red planet may have supported life, according to new ... > full story
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  ChemCam Follows the 'Yellowknife Road' to Martian Wet Area

  January 16, 2013 — Researchers have tracked a trail of minerals that point to the prior presence of water at the Curiosity rover site on ... > full story

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