Everyone’s favorite little machine, the NASA Curiosity rover is now exploring a huge crater which the scientists believe to have been a huge lake a long time ago. The scientists have named the huge crater Mount Sharp and is a three-mile high pile of layered debris which rises from the floor of another crater named Gale Crater. The NASA experts believe this crater was formed many billions of … [Read more...]
Early Volcanic Activity May Have Triggered Martian River Formation
We already know that fresh water had once flowed on Mars. The traces are quite visible in the planet’s geography. However, the planet is now mostly a frozen desert, so how was that possible? Scientists from Brown University gave a potential, yet compelling explanation in a study published in Nature Geoscience. The argument says that volcanic activity may have kept the planet warm enough for … [Read more...]