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Old 21-11-2012, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Irish stargazer View Post
Hopefully not something carried over from Earth with the lander. Hence the caution perhaps.
Indeed. The first air sample indicated methane, which apparently had been carried
there from Cape Canaveral.

But at the end of the day, the scientific process is always to do the experiment, write the
paper, the paper is peer reviewed and then published (or sent back), then once published, a press release is made.
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