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Image of the Week #4, August 15, 2011: From: Old Briny: Mars, water, and the search for life by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded. Original source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona This week researchers revealed the first evidence for the current existence of liquid water on Mars in a paper by McEwen et al. in the Aug. [...]