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Rover Senses Carbon Dioxide
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Rover Senses Carbon Dioxide

December 16, 2004
This graph, consisting of data acquired on Mars from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's mini-thermal emission spectrometer, shows the light, or spectral, signature of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide makes up the bulk of the thin martian atmosphere.