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New Rock Type Found at Mars

February 16, 2005

Pasadena, California - NASA's Spirit rover found a new class of rock on Mars that provides additional clues to the planet's watery past.

"This is probably the most interesting and important rock Spirit has examined," said Dr. Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator for the rovers. "This may be what the bones of this mountain are really made of."

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