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We know that Mars once had a landscape with oceans and rivers, but what happened to it?Key facts
- Although Mars is a freezing dry world today, it is thought the planet was once like Earth.
- If liquid water once existed on Mars, ancient life could be suspended in ice.
- In 2001, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft used cosmic rays and gamma rays to detect hydrogen beneath the surface of Mars.
- The discovery of hydrogen on Mars suggests a vast frozen ocean, which might once have been partially liquid.
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Since the Viking missions in the 1970s, exciting clues in the search for life on Mars, have emerged.
The reason for this excitement is water.
Although Mars is a freezing dry world today, it is thought that the red planet was once like Earth – with liquid water, an atmosphere, and a ...
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