NASA scientists have found compelling evidence that leads them to believe liquid water is present in Mars.
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The latest news of finding water comes after the instruments of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter gave the strongest evidence for the same.
They’ve found the red planet has a summer season, during which streams of life-giving liquid water flow across its ancient surface.
Nasa’s discovery of water on Mars “points to environments that could potentially be habitable to certain kinds of bacteria”, according to an expert. He says knowing more about life on other planets can teach us more about our own. Scientists realized that the water was flowing down the slopes of formations like craters when temperatures are above minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit.
“It suggests that it would be possible for life to be on Mars today”, John Grunsfeld, NASA’s associate administrator for science, told reporters, discussing the study published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
“We’ve known about these streaks for … several years and most of us suspected from the beginning that they were probably made with briny water, said Sean McMahon of Yale’s Department of Geology and Geophysics”. CNN reports Monday that scientists think life is probably yet to be found if water on Mars exists. Exploration by the Curiosity Rover proves that billions of years ago it was once a planet similar to Earth. “Which is why the discovery that water is now likely to be regularly flowing across Mars is so stunning”, astrophysicist Alan Duffy said.
Campbell said the race was on to develop cheaper and more efficient ways of travelling space, which would help support the idea of a manned mission to the red planet.
With evidences of flowing water during the summer, the planet may have promising siting for human beings of the future.
“The water may be such a dense brine that life can’t flourish, and the radiation environment of Mars’ surface is detrimental”.
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Until now we can only speculate where this water is coming from – from vapors in the Martian atmosphere, attracted by the salts, or maybe from an underground source.
