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Water vapours rising from Mars suggest ‘planet may have been habitable’ – The Irish News
Scientists have detected escaping water vapour from Mars’s atmosphere.
Water vapour has been detected escaping from Mars’s atmosphere, offering scientists a fresh clue as to whether the red planet was once home to life.
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia’s Roscosmos, made the discovery by measuring light as vapour passes through the atmosphere.
Scientists, including two from the Open University, used an instrument on board the orbiter called the “Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery” (NOMAD) to study water…
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