We’ve spent billions of dollars trying to find evidence of life on Mars, but have so far come back empty handed. We shouldn’t consider those billions a waste, though. The research the money has funded keeps validating the conviction that we’re right to keep searching—and that we’re likely to soon find what we’re looking for.
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