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Video: NASA announces major Mars water discovery

Watch highlights from the NASA press conference, held at 11:30 a.m. ET

A Martian mystery is solved: Far from being an arid, freeze-dried desert, water, it seems, flows on Mars even today—that’s according to new research being presented in the journal Nature Geoscience. NASA told us more in a press briefing at 11:30 ET. Watch highlights of the event below.

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