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Here are more Mars headlines:
* Microbes that hitch a ride on a spacecraft might make it all the way to Mars, but a recent study finds they probably won’t survive for very long there. (Jun 4, 2009)
* Silly emails are flooding the internet again warning that Mars will be spectacularly close to the Earth in August. It won't. The Society for Popular Astronomy reveals the truth. (Jun 3, 2009)
* A team of volunteers are simulating a mission to the Red Planet in Moscow. One crew member reports on the Mars500 experiment nine weeks into the mission. (Jun 3, 2009)
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