Huge Glaciers Found On Mars


	Huge Glaciers Found On Mars

Brian Caulfield

11-21-2008 5:19 PM

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mars, space, nasa, water, ice, orbiter

Brian Caulfield says:

The find makes could make colonization viable, could harbor clues to Martian climate change, and even clues on whether or not there has ever been life on the red planet

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