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A lake on Mars may have been teeming with microbes long ago

Curiosity Mars rover He detected intriguing chemical evidence in the form of abnormal amounts of manganese oxide. Anthem Billions of years ago it had not only a habitable environment, but also an environment probably inhabited by microbes. NASA’s Curiosity Exploring the giant Gale crater with a diameter of 154 kilometers (about 96 miles)Curiosity’s discoveries revealed… Read More »