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MarsNews.com was founded in 1999 by James Burk and Dustin Green during their time working with the Mars Society Puget Sound (the Seattle, WA chapter of the Mars Society.) The website launched on March 10, 1999 and later that year was featured in Popular Science Magazine's Top 50 Best of the Web, as well as winning other awards such as from the Griffith Observatory.

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