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Rover Images Confirm Jezero Crater is an Ancient Martian Lake

posted by mrpg on Monday October 11 2021, @03:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the fossils! dept.

upstart writes:

Rover images confirm Jezero crater is an ancient Martian lake: The findings include signs of flash flooding that carried huge boulders downstream into the lakebed.:

The first scientific analysis of images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover has now confirmed that Mars' Jezero crater -- which today is a dry, wind-eroded depression -- was once a quiet lake, fed steadily by a small river some 3.7 billion years ago.

The images also reveal evidence that the crater endured flash floods. This flooding was energetic enough to sweep up large boulders from tens of miles upstream and deposit them into the lakebed, where the massive rocks lie today.

[...] "We now have the opportunity to look for fossils," says team member Tanja Bosak, associate professor of geobiology at MIT. "It will take some time to get to the rocks that we really hope to sample for signs of life. So, it's a marathon, with a lot of potential."

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Mockingbird on Monday October 11 2021, @05:06AM (2 children)

    by Mockingbird (15239) on Monday October 11 2021, @05:06AM (#1186073) Journal

    Greatest scientific advance in this century, and all we have is comments like this.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday October 11 2021, @08:37PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 11 2021, @08:37PM (#1186280) Journal

    You could try submitting some good stories that get accepted.

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    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Mockingbird on Monday October 11 2021, @09:08PM

      by Mockingbird (15239) on Monday October 11 2021, @09:08PM (#1186285) Journal

      Tried that! My acceptance rate is 6%. Looks like I am not good at picking good stories.