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Liquid water exists on Mars, boosting hopes for life there, NASA says
Potentially life-giving water still flows across the ancient surface of Mars from time to time, NASA scientists said Monday in revealing a potential breakthrough in both the search for life beyond Earth and human hopes to one day travel there.
While the discovery doesn’t by itself offer evidence of life on Mars, either past or present, it does boost hopes that the harsh landscape still offers some refuge for microbes to cling to existence.
“The existence of liquid water, even if it is super salty briny water, gives the possibility that if there’s life on Mars, that we have a way to describe how it might survive,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA.
WORDS TO KNOW
surface = the top part of something
to reveal (verb) = to show for the first time
to offer evidence = to prove, to give proof of
harsh (adjective) = rough, tough, difficult to survive in
refuge (noun) = shelter, a safe place to live
briny (adj) = very salty, having a lot of salt in it
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