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...interesting spot on the surface is one the spacecraft created. As the bubble-wrapped craft bounced to a landing, it scuffed the ground at a point just south of where the rover now rests. The loose red soil it cleared away has revealed a dark patch of what resembles mud--though that's impossible on the entirely waterless floor of Gusev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Return to Mars | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...looks like mud, but it can't be mud," says Steve Squyres, the mission's principal science investigator. "It holds together well. I'm not even prepared to speculate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Return to Mars | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...looks like mud, but it can't be mud." Dr. Steven W. Squyres, scientist with NASA's Spirit mission to Mars, after viewing pictures of the planet's surface. The mission's rovers will scour the surface for evidence of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

Mohammad Sarfarz Khan strides up a short mud path to a tunnel dug into the hillside, enters and disappears. The 61-year-old Kashmiri villager is sure-footed in the gloom, feeling his way around the shelter with practiced confidence. When he reaches the inner bunker, Khan pulls a blanket around his shoulders and peers out of a small window. It is from here that, since 1989, he has watched thousands of Indian and Pakistani artillery shells describe golden arcs as they split the air of the valley below. "I suppose we were lucky," he says, of surviving 14 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Glimmer of Hope | 1/11/2004 | See Source »

...Most Detailed Image of Mars Shows Mysterious Substance - A Washington Post report on the mud-like substance that has proven to be a mystery on a surface that was expected to have been bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting to Know Mars | 1/7/2004 | See Source »

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