The findings could help us find the planet's water and better grasp whether it is habitable.
on Mars. Numerous observations of the planet suggest surface features resembling rivers and oceans, implying that water may have flowed in the planet's early history. The planet is now desolate and inhospitable. Nonetheless, our hopes of finding liquid water on the Martian surface will never reach a dead-end.A new announcement has just been made at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.
This relict glacier is located at the Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus on Mars. What's intriguing is the presence of light-toned deposits made up of sulfate salts in the region. Since the “What we’ve found is not ice, but a salt deposit with the detailed morphologic features of a glacier. What we think happened here is that salt formed on top of a glacier while preserving the shape of the ice below, down to details like crevasse fields and moraine bands,” explained Lee.One aspect of this study suggests that liquid water flowed on Mars until more recently than previously thought.
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