Recently discovered lakes and streams on ancient Mars appeared roughly a billion years after a well-documented, earlier era of wet conditions. Results suggest the surface conditions at this later time may also have been suitable for microbial life.

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Recently discovered lakes and streams on ancient Mars appeared roughly a billion years after a well-documented, earlier era of wet conditions. Results suggest the surface conditions at this later time may also have been suitable for microbial life.