New data captured by NASA's Curiosity rover shows that Mars once had the 'right conditions' to support life.
Mars was very likely a “planet of rivers,” geoscientist Benjamin Cardenas of Penn State University and the lead author of a new research project shared in a statement. The study concluded that Mars once had the right conditions for life and that the evidence we see now was left behind by years of erosion along the surface of the planet. The new paper was published in Geophysical Research Letters and relied on several numerical models that simulated erosion across the Red Planet.
These deposits prove that Mars once had the right conditions to support life, allowing for the flow of liquid water much like what we have on Earth. It’s an astounding discovery that isn’t really that surprising, given the other evidence that we’ve discovered while exploring the planet. With NASA working hard to pull off the Mars Sample Return, studies like this only highlight how much more there is to learn about the Martian world.
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