Opportunity: First 90 days on Mars

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Opportunity: First 90 days on Mars

Mark Peplow

As the rover's groundbreaking results are published, [e-mail] looks at the key moments of discovery.

Interactive Mars Presentation:
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041129//full/041129-10.html

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1. sound like the bush family practiced nation building on Mars....

before they came to destroy our planet.

NASA's martian rover Opportunity has been exploring the red planet since it landed there at 5.05 GMT on 25 January 2004. In its first 90 days on Mars, the rover found compelling evidence that the planet was once much warmer and wetter than it is today. These results, now published in Science, suggest that Mars was once capable of sustaining life. [e-mail] looks back at the key moments of discovery.

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2. Velikovsky.