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Ancient Mars may have had a carbon cycle − a new study suggests the red planet may have once been warmer, wetter and more favorable for life

  • Written by Elisabeth M. Hausrath, Professor of Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
imageA panorama created from images taken by the rover Curiosity while it was working at a site called 'Rocknest' in 2012.NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems

Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to Earth. It is about the same size, contains similar rocks and...

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