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."
(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