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Humans have long imagined life on Mars, but what if the red planet actually delivered life to Earth in the first place?

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Earth should have lost its water long before life ever had a chance to appear. Bathed in a young Sun’s fierce radiation and wrapped in a global magma ocean, the planet’s surface looked more like a ...

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