Water on Mars!
THIS JUST IN: NASA: Photos taken years appart show mud transitions that are believed to have been caused by running water.
The photographs by NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, which fell silent last month after almost 10 years of observing the planet from orbit, show what appear to be light-colored deposits in two gullies on crater walls. They were not present in earlier photographs.
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The shapes of these deposits are what you would expect to see if the material were carried by flowing water,” Mr. Malin said during a televised news conference held here at NASA headquarters. The deposits appeared to have been left by a liquid mixed with dirt or other material that flowed down a slope for hundreds of yards, he said.
This is incredible! Both in the sense that this increases the chances of alien bacteria surviving on Mars — and that with water there, terraforming would be a lot simpler task.
you can read theNYTimes article here!
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