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(R-L) Jim Watzin, Mars Exploration Program Director of the NASA, Jan Woerner, Director General of the ESA, and Mikhail Khailov,Deputy Director General for Automatic Space complexes of Space agency roscosmos discuss on the stage about the European-Russian ExoMars 2016 mission at the European Space Agency ESA space operation center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, on October 19, 2016. Mission controllers were anxiously awaiting confirmation Wednesday that a tiny European craft had landed on Mars as part of an ambitious quest with Russia to find evidence of life on the Red Planet. / AFP / THOMAS KIENZLE (Photo credit should read THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP/Getty Images)

(R-L) Jim Watzin, Mars Exploration Program Director of the NASA, Jan Woerner, Director General of the ESA, and Mikhail Khailov,Deputy Director General for Automatic Space complexes of Space agency roscosmos discuss on the stage about the European-Russian ExoMars 2016 mission at the European Space Agency ESA space operation center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, on October 19, 2016. Mission controllers were anxiously awaiting confirmation Wednesday that a tiny European craft had landed on Mars as part of an ambitious quest with Russia to find evidence of life on the Red Planet. / AFP / THOMAS KIENZLE (Photo credit should read THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP/Getty Images)
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