NEWSFLASH: Mars is Toxic http://news.discovery.com/space/newsf... "Mars One founder Bas Lansdorp announced this week that 78,000 people internationally have applied to become the first colonists on a one-way mission to Mars."
FAQ: Significance of Liquid Water On Mars http://www.livescience.com/33429-faq-... "Salt water might flow down some Martian slopes each spring. As detailed in the Aug. 5 issue of the journal Science, the research team in charge of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), a NASA probe, say they've observed seasonally varying features on the surface of the Red Planet that could be carved by briny water."
Potential Mars Water 'A Big Deal,' Scientists Say http://www.space.com/12575-mars-water... "Claims of water on Mars have been made before, but a new discovery of potential liquid water on the Red Planet's surface last week is still making waves in the science world."
NASA Mars rover Curiosity finds water in first sample of planet surface http://www.eurekalert.org/emb_release... "The first scoop of soil analyzed by the analytical suite in the belly of NASA's Curiosity rover reveals that fine materials on the surface of the planet contain several percent water by weight. The results were published today in Science as one article in a five-paper special section on the Curiosity mission. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dean of Science Laurie Leshin is the study's lead author."
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