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Published online 5 June 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.551
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Mars missions get in line
NASA planetary competitions to no longer favour Mars.
For much of the past two decades, the Mars science community in the United States has enjoyed special treatment. It had its own programme office at NASA, with a budget equal to almost half of that given to all planetary science.
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