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October 3, 2011
Life on Mars?
A million-dollar NASA project led by Nilton Renno, a professor in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, plans to create Mars conditions in lab chambers and study how and when brines form and if microbes can survive and replicate in them. The project was inspired by beads of liquid brine that were photographed on the Phoenix Mars Lander three years ago.