![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920110155im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field In Search of Water on Mars, Clues From Antarctica
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December 7, 2007
![polar graphic](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920110155im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/1polar_l.gif) | Scientists have gathered more evidence that suggests flowing water on Mars, by comparing images of the red planet to an otherworldly landscape on Earth. In recent years, scientists have examined images of several sites on Mars where water appears to have flowed to the surface and left behind a trail of sediment. Those sites closely resemble places where water flows today in the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, the new study has found. Full story |
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