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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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Rover Images Confirm Jezero Crater is an Ancient Martian Lake
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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Barenflimski on Monday October 11 2021, @05:54AM (7 children)
I can't wait for the day when we learn that life really started on Mars and was then blasted to earth after a large impact. When this happens, I'm going to sit quietly and think to myself... "Yea, I called it."
That will be a good day.
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by coolgopher on Monday October 11 2021, @07:10AM (3 children)
The US will have a nationwide crisis when they realise everyone is an alien that needs to be deported right away. Well, deported or punched in the face [youtube.com], I guess.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @05:06PM (2 children)
Dude, 75% of Americans believe Jesus personally gave birth to them by cutting off his ribs. Nobody gonna give a shit about Mars bugs.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday October 11 2021, @07:59PM (1 child)
There's so much wrong in that statement, I don't even want to think about it. I hope that 75% of Americans wouldn't think that Jesus gave birth to them by cutting off his rib. Then again, I also hope that most people want good things for others besides themselves. It's one thing to say and another to do.
The average person in America is concerned with exterminating bugs and that's about it as far as bugs are concerned, though.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday October 13 2021, @05:21AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @01:10PM (1 child)
more like lofe started everywhere, then got burnt blown, frozen and disolved off most bodies in the solar system. nature being universal and all.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Monday October 11 2021, @03:51PM
Lofe mostly starts with yeast. Burning, blowing, freezing, and dissolving are not recommended. Rather, baking is called for.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Informative) by mcgrew on Monday October 11 2021, @02:47PM
No, it was Venus before global warming. [mcgrewbooks.com]
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