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NASA picks ancient Martian river delta for 2020 rover touchdown

NASA has picked an ancient River Delta as the landing site for its uncrewed Mars 2020 rover, to hunt for evidence of past life on Earth's neighboring planet, officials said Monday. The Jezero Crater delta on Mars [Credit: NASA]Even though the Red Planet is now cold and dry, the landing site, Jezero Crater, was filled with a 1,600-foot (500-meter) deep lake that opened to a network of rivers some 3.5 to 3.9 billion years ago. "The...

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