Mars May Have Been Sheltering a Deep Ocean 4 Billion Years Ago, and the ExoMars Rover Is Going to Check It Out.
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Before becoming an arid red planet, Mars was able to potentially shelter a gigantic ocean. As the evidence of its past existence accumulates, the European rover Rosalind Franklin of the ExoMars mission will go to contact with clay deposits, looking for traces of past life.
A new study reveals that the clay deposits of Oxia Planum, the future landing site of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover, extend 600 km to the surface of Mars. A discovery that revives the question of life on the red planet.
The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission, scheduled for launch in 2028, could help answer one of the most important questions in modern science: whether life existed on Mars. Scientists believe that vast clay deposits in the Oxia Planum region could be remnants of an ancient ocean or vast underground reservoirs. The article "ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover Will Explore Traces of an Ancient Ocean and Possible Life on Mars" is from the website Everyt…

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