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Scientists have cracked a long-standing Martian mystery. Those seasonal gullies on sand dunes that everyone thought were made by water. Turns out, carbon dioxide (CO₂) ice, or dry ice, is the culprit.

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This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You don’t have to pay much ...