"CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA is still unable to say for sure whether its Phoenix lander has found a place where life could have existed on Mars.

But scientists working with the U.S. space agency said on Monday computer models they have been using to predict what the weather would be like on the Red Planet are wrong, and more accurate models would give a better picture of its past."
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"Something is taking the wind-blown material and mildly cementing it," said Ray Arvidson, of Washington University in St. Louis, who served as the lead scientist for the lander's robotic arm.

More results from the Phoenix mission are expected next year. "