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NASA found clues of life on Mars, but budget cuts threaten future missions

NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. | Photo: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

An exciting discovery on Mars is being overshadowed by turmoil at NASA, with budget cuts threatening to destroy a scientific legacy that has been built over decades.

Yesterday, the agency shared a finding, published in Nature, of potential biosignatures identified by the Mars Perseverance rover in a 3.5 billion-year-old rock.

“This very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars,” said Transportation Secretary and Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in a press conference.

Leftover fossils

Scientists involved in the research were careful to emphasize that the findings – related to unusual textural features of r …

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