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Doris Elín Urrutia

Scientists Just Identified A Key Location On Mars Where Life Could Thrive

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NASA is always searching for life on Mars, and on Thursday, the space agency announced one place it might thrive.

The announcement describes a new paper, published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment, that suggests dusty ice could hollow out the frozen water enough for light to penetrate as far down as nine feet below the surface.

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