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NASA Studies Earth's High Arctic for Evidence of Life on Early Mars

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - Later this month, NASA's Spaceward Bound program will send a team of scientists and teachers to explore the permanently frozen landscape of Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian high Arctic. Full Article at Space Ref

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