Mars time machine: researchers create virtual model to decode Red Planet’s climate evolution

Mars time machine: researchers create virtual model to decode Red Planet’s climate evolution

Researchers are creating advanced simulations that will provide a deeper understanding of Mars’s climatic history and help to determine whether it was once able to sustain life. By Jonathan O’Callaghan An international team of researchers is developing a model of Mars’s evolution that could unlock some of its long-held secrets, including whether it once harboured […] The post Mars time machine: researchers create virtual model to decode Red Plan…

Ghost rivers, hidden lakes: The long search for water on Mars

The quest to send humans to Mars is on: US President Donald Trump talked about it in his inauguration speech this year. Such an epic endeavor could help to answer fundamental questions about the Red Planet, including the biggest question of all: Did Mars once host life — and does it still? Central to thoseContinue reading "Ghost rivers, hidden lakes: The long search for water on Mars" The post Ghost rivers, hidden lakes: The long search for wate…

Doesn't the word alien belong only to science fiction literature and movies? It depends on what we imagine by the word. Within our solar system, if life really exists here and resembles something we know, it first takes the form of microorganisms, such as bacteria or protozoa. And if we are optimistic, worms could also live somewhere. Or tunicates, which are marine animals barely visible to the naked eye, which can spend their entire lives witho…