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Orbiter uncovers 'another new Mars'

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posted on Oct, 17 2006 @ 07:41 PM
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I find this to be really interesting.We discover something new everyday about Mars.And i would appear the best is yet to come.


(MSNBC)-NASA’s latest spacecraft to orbit Mars has already found new clues to the red planet’s changing environment, and the best is yet to come, mission managers said Monday.
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is still weeks away from beginning its planned science mission, but the immense probe has thrilled scientists with initial images and data pointing to a variable polar environment, ancient soaking events that produced clays, and relatively new—geologically speaking—gullies carved into the shadowed rim of a southern crater.
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“We have another new Mars,” said Steve Saunders, MRO program scientist at NASA’s Washington D.C. headquarters, in a mission briefing.
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“We’re just at the start of our data acquisition period and it’s a little daunting to think that, very soon, we’ll be opening up a fire hose of data from the spacecraft,” Zurek said. “Our appetites are whetted and we’re excited to get started.”
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