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      <title>NASA names winners of $650,000 Deep Space Food Challenge for Mars missions</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>NASA has awarded $650,000 to the winners of its Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table, with the top $300,000 prize going to Chinyere Ukeje of Philadelphia for a modular food ecosystem named ANI.</description>
      <author>Priya Raman</author>
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      <title>NASA's Perseverance finds complex record of water activity on early Mars</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Rocks in Jezero Crater's Margin Unit show water interacted with them on at least three separate occasions, a new study in Communications Earth &amp; Environment reports.</description>
      <author>Priya Raman</author>
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      <category>water on Mars</category>
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