New Discovery on Mars: Ancient River Delta Confirms Planet Was Habitable
A recent study by a team of scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Oslo, has revealed that NASA's Perseverance rover has collected data confirming the existence of an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater on Mars.
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New Discovery on Mars: Ancient River Delta Confirms Planet Was Habitable
A recent study by a team of scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Oslo, has revealed that NASA's Perseverance rover has collected data confirming the existence of an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater on Mars.
A river delta is clear evidence of the presence of liquid water in the past on Mars, which reinforces the assumption that the planet was habitable.
The research team conducted subsurface surveys using a special radar device mounted on the Perseverance rover. The survey revealed the presence of layers of sediment 20 meters thick, which resemble the layers that form in river deltas on Earth.
David Paige, a planetary scientist at UCLA and the lead author of the study, said that these findings "add new evidence to the growing body of evidence that Mars was habitable in the past."
Paige added that "the sediments we found are very similar to sediments that form in river deltas on Earth. This suggests that water was present in Jezero Crater in large quantities, and that it was flowing for a long period of time."
Scientists believe that the Jezero River delta formed about three billion years ago, when Mars was warmer and wetter than it is today.
NASA hopes to be able to study the Jezero River delta in more detail using the samples collected by the Perseverance rover. These samples are scheduled to be transported to Earth in 2033.
If scientists are able to find evidence of life in the Jezero River delta, it would be an amazing discovery that would change our understanding of Mars.
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