I think we have much more science to be done by this spacecraft itself, and it will serve an important function as a communications asset [for future missions]
Michael Meyer
Dramatic discoveries.. About recent gullies, near-surface permafrost and ancient surface water have given us a new Mars in the past few years.
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To see new gullies and other changes in Mars surface features on a time span of a few years presents us with a more active, dynamic planet than many suspected.
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[The need for the building] is as important now as it ever was,.. We were in antiquated facilities.
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What the Mars orbital camera has revealed from this long and detailed study of the Red Planet is a dynamic Mars, a planet that can change not on the mind-boggling millions and billions of years, but on the order of years and decades.
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Came back with a big smile and shook it.
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He's just a good artist and stuff. I think I might frame it.
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This is the only such debris disk among the 33 sun-like stars we've studied in our project so far, and one of only five such objects known.
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We think this is a tight, narrow ring of rocky objects similar to those in our asteroid belt, except this ring is five AU from its star, instead of two-to-three AU, the distance between our asteroid belt and the sun.
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