NASA scientists announced the world for the next breakthrough discovery. At the bottom of Gale crater formed by millions of years old and dried out lake. Curiosity has discovered the remains of sediment that accumulated on the bottom of the Martian valley. They formed the rock layers – including Mount Sharp near which operates Curiosity.
Employees NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory speculate that the resulting sharp rocks (including high five km above the surface of Mars Mount Sharp), there were 3.5 billion years ago, when Gale was filled with water.
– We are working on an explanation of the creation of Mount Sharp. Where now stands a mountain, once could be a lake – said John Grotzinger of the California Institute in Pasadena.
The existence of water on Mars
Scientists have speculated over ten years, the presence of the seas and oceans in the early history of Mars. Now, the theory of the existence of the ocean on Mars becomes more real.
For now, NASA employees do not know why there was water on Mars. Suspect that the Red Planet was experiencing a change dry and wet periods. This means that life could have existed on Mars more than it was thought before.
Earth twin
Recent research has linked two years of data collected by the rover Curiosity, from landing inside Gale Crater. Jeep sends more data providing a remarkable similarity Mars to Earth. It turns out that on the surface of the Red Planet could grow microorganisms.
Two years of work
The rover Curiosity is the heart of a $ 2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). The task of automated laboratory science and research, among others, to analyze the potential conditions for life on Mars.
August 5 Curiosity celebrated another anniversary work on Mars.
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