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<p>From <font color="#3366ff">SDC</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">A lake that might once have been habitable may have filled a crater for a long time on early Mars, new spacecraft images reveal.</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured the images that suggest the debris-strewn Holden Crater once held a calm body of water that could have harbored life. There is so far no convincing evidence life does or ever did exist on Mars, however. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">The crater debris includes a mix of broken boulders and smaller particles called megabreccia.</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">"Holden crater has some of the best-exposed lake deposits and ancient megabreccia known on Mars," said Alfred McEwen, principal scientist for MRO's HiRISE camera. "Both contain minerals that formed in the presence of water and mark potentially habitable environments. This would be an excellent place to send a rover or sample-return mission to make major advances in understanding if Mars supported life."</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">See rest of story at link</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/14/7/ae7c1002-6e7b-4486-b759-124901c21bd0.Medium.jpg" alt="" /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Close up</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/7/12/d7486bdb-fc4f-4b0e-ace8-15fce733d5fc.Medium.jpg" alt="" /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em><font size="1" color="#000080">Don't let who you are keep you from becoming who you want to be!</font></em></p> </div>