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February 4, 2012

'Super-Drought' Makes Mars Too Dry for Life

Nick Collins, Telegraph


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Analysis of soil from the red planet found that its surface had been dry for such a long time that any life would have to be lurking deep underground.

Researchers deduced that there had been water present during a warmer period lasting up to 5,000 years in the distant past, but this would have been too little time for life to establish itself on the surface.

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