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Incredible news out of NASA on Wednesday, flowing water on Mars:

A spacecraft orbiting Mars has discovered compelling evidence that water has cascaded down the slopes of at least two Martian craters within the past seven years, forming mile-long gullies where the water has frozen instantly into brilliant ice, NASA scientists announced Wednesday.

Water is the basic ingredient for life and where there is water…

“It’s one more reason to think that life could be there,’’ said Bruce Jakosky, an astrobiologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who had no role in the study.

Life in the sense of single-celled micro-organisms, not the little green kind with bad dispositions. More importantly, this news could confirm a long-held belief that Mars has water and could support human life. Having water on Mars means we don’t have to bring as much with us when we go there.

This news follows NASA announcement early this week about building a base on the moon:

NASA an­nounced plans today to build a per­ma­nent base on the moon by 2024.

“With such an out­post, NASA can learn to use the moon’s nat­u­ral re­sources to live off the land, make prepa­ra­tions for a jour­ney to Mars, con­duct a wide range of sci­en­tif­ic in­ves­ti­ga­tions and en­cour­age in­ter­na­tion­al par­tic­i­pa­tion,” the agen­cy said in a state­ment.

Is it just me or is this getting really cool.

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