Washington, Feb 9 (Ians) NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered clearest evidence yet of ancient water ripples that formed within lakes on the Red Planet.
Billions of years ago, waves on the surface of a shallow lake stirred up sediment at the lake bottom, over time creating rippled textures left in rock.
Among other discoveries made by the rover, rippled rock textures suggest lakes existed in a region of ancient Mars that scientists expected to be drier.
“This is the best evidence of water and waves that we’ve seen in the entire mission,” said Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity’s project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“We climbed through thousands of feet of lake deposits and never saw evidence like this — and now we found it in a place we expected to be dry,” Vasavada added
Since 2014, the rover has been ascending the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile (5-km...
Billions of years ago, waves on the surface of a shallow lake stirred up sediment at the lake bottom, over time creating rippled textures left in rock.
Among other discoveries made by the rover, rippled rock textures suggest lakes existed in a region of ancient Mars that scientists expected to be drier.
“This is the best evidence of water and waves that we’ve seen in the entire mission,” said Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity’s project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“We climbed through thousands of feet of lake deposits and never saw evidence like this — and now we found it in a place we expected to be dry,” Vasavada added
Since 2014, the rover has been ascending the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile (5-km...
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