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The twin Mars Rovers Opportunity and Curiosity have both been looking into old riverbeds on the red planet, discovering that flowing water existed in impressive volumes at one point, suggesting that life could well have been sustained in Mars' history. A lot of this new information comes from rocks drilled …

NASA spent a lot of time and money (though not as much as you'd expect) sending the Curiosity Rover to Mars so understandably they want to keep an eye on it from all angles. One such angle is from space, thanks to the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, …