Thursday 24 January 2013

New evidence of groundwater-fed lake on Mars

New evidence of groundwater-fed lake on Mars:
Artist's concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (Image: NASA/JPL)
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found new evidence of a wet underground environment that once existed on the Red Planet. Using its Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), the orbiter examined the floor of McLaughlin Crater in the Northern Hemisphere of the planet and found evidence of the formation of carbonates and clay in a groundwater-fed lake in the ancient past. .. Continue Reading New evidence of groundwater-fed lake on Mars

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