By tasting a little bit of the
Phoenix was the most recent spacecraft to land on Mars and
From that data mine, researchers discovered that the carbon
"We think of Mars as cold and
When combined with studies of 4-billion-year-old Martian
Unexpected activity
Niles warned that it is hard to judge from the data how much
"That could be the result of a lot of groundwater
The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mars is mostly derived
"All these results suggest that Mars is more active
Isotopes tell watery tale
Niles and his colleagues used Phoenix's observations of
Isotopes are versions of a chemical element that have
Phoenix gathered carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and then
The research is detailed in the
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