Thanks to Cosmic Radiation, There Could be Life on Mars, Just a Couple of Meters Under the Surface

Thanks to Cosmic Radiation, There Could be Life on Mars, Just a Couple of Meters Under the Surface
By Nancy Atkinson

Remember back in 2008 when the Phoenix lander on Mars scraped away a few inches of rust-colored regolith to reveal water ice? Or in 2009, when Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observations revealed vast areas of subsurface ice, event at low latitudes? These findings – and many more like them – indicate there’s a lot of interesting …

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July 29, 2020 at 10:44PM
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