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Multispectral Imaging of Mars Reveals a Long-Dry Planet

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Hank Hogan, Contributing Editor

The latest word on martian water and the possibility of life on the Red Planet comes courtesy of Observatoire pour la Minéralogie, l’Eau, les Glaces et l’Activité, or Omega, a visible and infrared mapping spectrometer aboard the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter. Mars, as confirmed by results from Omega, has been cold and dry for billions of years. “The implications for life are that any record of its presence on the surface would likely be in the ancient rocks and that if life were present today, it would have to be well underground,” said John F. Mustard, an associate...Read full article

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