The Mars Express mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has met with great success and has officially been extended one Martian year (23 months.)
The probe has collected reams of data on soil composition, water detection, atmospheric readings, weather patterns and seasonal climate changes. It's fair to say we've learned more from Mars Express than we have from all other orbiting Martian probes combined.
It even detected a very large, strange methane gas emission which some scientists theorize could be further signs of microbial life.
Unfortunately it did not find any giant stone sculptures or cities and no obvious signs of life.
It's interesting to note, we now know more about the surface of the Moon and Mars than we do about the bottoms of Earths ocean.
I wonder what sort of life we'll find down there?
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