NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has made perhaps the biggest discovery of its nearly 10-year career, finding evidence that life may have been able to get a foothold on the Red Planet long ago.
Opportunity discovered in the soil of the planet, in an ancient rock on the rim of Mars' Endeavour Crater, traces of clay. This means that in the past in this area had water.
"This is water you could drink," Nasa principal investigator Steve Squyres of Cornell University told reporters
Skyures believes that the red planet could exist elementary forms of life.
Opportunity and its "twin brother», Spirit, landed on Mars in January 2004. Their mission was a wanted sign of life on this planet.
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