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Life on Mars?

August 3, 2012

Life on Mars?

Michigan Engineering faculty, staff and students play a role in an ambitious NASA mission that is landing the most advanced scientific instruments ever to be used on Mars’ surface. On August 5, the Mars Science Laboratory is setting the Curiosity rover on Gale Crater to assess whether Mars is, or ever was, capable of supporting microbial life.

Photo: NASA

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