{"id":1169980,"date":"2023-08-09T15:34:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1169980"},"modified":"2023-08-09T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:34:03","slug":"mars-rover-finds-signs-of-seasonal-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1169980","title":{"rendered":"Mars rover finds signs of seasonal floods"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> The newly described deposits (left) have their shapes highlighted in red at right. (credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS\/IRAP<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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The prodigious evidence for water on Mars has eliminated scientific debate about whether Mars had a watery past. It clearly did. But it has left us with an awkward question: What exactly did that past look like? Some results argue that there were long-lived oceans<\/a> and lakes on Mars. Others argue that the water largely consisted of ice-covered bodies that only allowed water<\/a> to burst out onto the surface on occasions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The picture is further confused by the fact that some or all of these may have been true at different times or in different locations. Creating a clear picture would help shape our understanding of an environment that might have been far more conducive to life than anything that exists on present-day Mars.<\/p>\n

A new paper describes evidence that at least one part of Mars went through many wet\/dry cycles, which may be critical for the natural production of molecules essential to life on Earth\u2014though they don’t necessarily mean conditions in which life itself could thrive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSource: Ars Technica – Mars rover finds signs of seasonal floods<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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