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

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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @05:01PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 12 2021, @05:01PM (#1186461)

    How do you trust your religious books to be true when it's demonstrably clear that there are errors in transmission and political meddling for thousands of years? How does a book wholly produced by men propose to faithfully reproduce the message of a being beyond the comprehension of men?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:21AM (#1186561)

    Yeaaah

    Critical thinking and religion do not go together, kinda by definition. When you turn ignorance into faith, no matter how well intentioned, you eventually end up with more ignorance and often hate. Thus why we have a politicized pandemic!

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:01PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday October 13 2021, @03:01PM (#1186663) Journal

    When you look at the history of the bible, you might be surprised at just how accurately translated and preserved it is.

    --
    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"