NASA Scientists: Mars was the ocean, but vanished – Dziennik.pl

On Mars was once a mighty ocean. He had more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, said NASA scientists . These calculations indicate that the existence of life on the Red Planet was more likely than thought so far. Ocean likely covered one-fifth of the surface of Mars in the polar regions of the northern hemisphere. Places could be more than a mile deep. There was a very long time, about 4.3 billion years ago. The basis for the calculation was the so-called heavy water. Mars is its relatively large. This indicates that the huge amounts of plain water, this that formed the ocean, vaporized and escaped into space.

The ocean probably was on the northern plains, which are relatively flat, while the low-lying and form a depression – explains Michael Mumma of NASA. wet Mars was probably much longer than one and a half billion years, it was thought until recently. And that means that life had plenty of time to develop on Mars.