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November 27, 2012

Life on Mars: NASA says 'hold on a minute!'
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 25, 2012
When a NASA official said last week data from an instrument on the Mars Curiosity rover suggested something "for the history books," many people thought an announcement was imminent of the possible discovery of life on the Red Planet - until the space agency began to seriously backpedal on the story. It may be a case of once bitten twice shy as NASA has been through this before - a hotly anticipated and heavily hyped bit of news that only disappoints in the end. The current excitement ... read more

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