Now, NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified two sets of ancient wave ripples on Mars, suggesting the presence of standing bodies of liquid water billions of years ago. Curiosity discovered the ...
Whether Mars ever had liquid water has long been a subject of debate among scientists, and a study published recently offers compelling evidence. Researchers evaluating data collected by NASA’s ...
The latest research has explored evidence from this distant chapter of Mars’ past, revealing ancient sources of water in the Gale crater region that evaporated and left behind wave ripples.
Ripples are one of the clearest indicators of an ancient standing body of water that can be provided by the geologic record. The team estimates that the ripples formed around 3.7 billion years ago ...