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Posted on 19/07/08

Getting the dirt on Mars

For the past month, a sterile vacuum chamber at the University of Guelph has served as a stand-in for the surface of MarsScientists needed to mimic the thin Martian atmosphere to conduct realistic tests on a new piece of space hardware that represents Canada's next major contribution to the exploration of the Red Planet.

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