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  2. Planetary habitability in the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Planetary habitability in the Solar System is the study that searches the possible existence of past or present extraterrestrial life in those celestial bodies. As exoplanets are too far away and can only be studied by indirect means, the celestial bodies in the Solar System allow for a much more detailed study: direct telescope observation, space probes, rovers and even human spaceflight.

  3. Life on Mars - Wikipedia

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    Even the hardiest cells known could not possibly survive the cosmic radiation near the surface of Mars since Mars lost its protective magnetosphere and atmosphere. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] After mapping cosmic radiation levels at various depths on Mars, researchers have concluded that over time, any life within the first several meters of the planet's ...

  4. Scientific information from the Mars Exploration Rover mission

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    Scientists have wanted to find out which of these processes created grey hematite on Mars since 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor spotted large concentrations of the mineral near the planet's equator (seen in the right picture). This discovery provided the first mineral evidence that Mars' history may have included water.

  5. Scientists Say These ‘Kidney Beans’ Could Prove Life on Mars

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    The more tilted towards the sun the northern hemisphere of the Red Planet is, the warmer it gets and vice versa. The CO2 ice turns to vapor and rises to the atmosphere when it grows warm enough.

  6. Chinese scientists identify super moss able to 'survive' in Mars

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    In the United States, NASA has formulated a 20-year plan for Mars, seeking answers to whether the red planet is habitable for humans. (Reporting by Liz Lee and Ryan Woo; editing by Miral Fahmy ...

  7. Planetary habitability - Wikipedia

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    The only ways in which potential life could avoid either an inferno or a deep freeze would be if the planet had an atmosphere thick enough to transfer the star's heat from the day side to the night side, or if there was a gas giant in the habitable zone, with a habitable moon, which would be locked to the planet instead of the star, allowing a ...

  8. List of potentially habitable exoplanets - Wikipedia

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    Kepler-1638b was thought to be a possibly habitable planet with a radius smaller than 2 R 🜨 after the validation. However based on the later measurement of host star parallax by Gaia, the radius of the planet was revised upward to 3.226 +0.201 −0.315 R 🜨, resulting in it being a ice giant like Neptune with poor prospect for habitability ...

  9. Exploration of Mars - Wikipedia

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    Mars 1962A was a Mars flyby mission, launched on October 24, 1962, and Mars 1962B an intended first Mars lander mission, launched in late December of the same year (1962). Both failed from either breaking up as they were going into Earth orbit or having the upper stage explode in orbit during the burn to put the spacecraft into trans-Mars ...