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ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Has Yet to Detect Methane On Mars


After more than eight years of searching and with instruments designed to detect it, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Trace Gas Orbiter has yet to find methane in the red planet’s atmosphere.

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