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Scientists Find Evidence Mars Was Once a Blue Planet
A broad view of Mars’s atmosphere. Credit: Andrea Luck / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 An international team of scientists has discovered geological formations on Mars that suggest the planet once held vast bodies of water, similar in scale to Earth’s Arctic Ocean. Using high-resolution satellite imagery, researchers found river delta-like structures that point to a time when Mars may have been a blue planet with flowing rivers and a large ocean…
The evidence that Mars harbored liquid water in its past has accumulated steadily for decades. River Deltas, minerals modified by the action of water and other geological footprints have been shaping the image of a planet that was much more humid than the current one. However, the climate of that time [...]
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