Mars: The discovery of traces of fossilized waves could rewrite its climate history

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Mars: The discovery of traces of fossilized waves could rewrite its climate history

The Curiosity rover has detected the remnants of wave waves on the shores of ancient shallow Martian lakes, dating back 3.7 billion years. While some modellings of Mars' climate past suggest that the water on its surface was covered with ice during this period, these new data show instead that it was liquid and exposed to the open air. This also indicates that liquid water probably persisted longer on the surface of the planet than was originall…