Photo: Mars Has Liquid Water, New Photos Suggest

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NASA photographs of Mars taken seven years apart reveal bright new deposits seen in two gullies— one of which is pictured here—suggesting that water carried sediment through them some time during the intervening years.

Photographs courtesy NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

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