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On This Day | NASA’s Curiosity rover finds signs of life on Mars

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On Dec. 9, 2013 , NASA announced that its Curiosity rover found signs that might have pointed to life on Mars .

Scientists said that the water was not salty or acidic and had nutrients that would have been able to support microbes.

The lake would have likely existed for tens or hundreds of thousands of years — and even after it dried up, it was possible for microbes to migrate underground.

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