By Nola Taylor Redd
SPACE.com5-3-12
Beneath their rugged exterior, some Martian rocks could be hiding life, scientists suspect. An examination of data gathered by NASAs Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reveals deposits that, on Earth, are only created by water moving through the rock.
"There are plenty of places on Earth where organisms live in places where water is flowing through fractures in rock," lead scientist Steve Squyres of Cornell University told SPACE.com. "Thats definitely a possibility at this location."
Opportunity also turned up evidence of hot, moving water within the rocks, likely caused by the impact that scooped out the crater, Odyssey....
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