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FOR KIDS: Martian microbes, maybe
Billions of years ago, Mars could have been teeming with very small Martians
Web edition: March 22, 2013
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The first sample of Martian rock drilled by the rover Curiosity. The rock offers evidence microbes could have lived on Mars.
NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS
In February, NASA’s Curiosity rover made history when it plunged a drill into the Martian surface to collect a powdery rock sample. Scientists now say that those bits of rock show the Red Planet may have been able to support life — billions of years ago, anyway.
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