LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – Scientists at Los Alamos Nationwide Labs say they found Earth-like environments on Mars.
The Curiosity Rover has been exploring the floor of Mars since 2015 when it landed within the Gale Crater alongside the planet’s equator.
The purpose of the mission is to determine what the floor of the planet is made up of and if it may assist life.
“After we landed we discovered plenty of proof for operating water like rivers operating into lakes. And that lake rock that represents the lake appears to have existed for a really very long time in Gale Crater,” mentioned Patrick Gasda, a LANL analysis scientist.
The pictures had been despatched again from the Curiosity Rover, exhibiting the big subject of manganese rocks.
“We are able to see the rocks are layered, they’re all flat and that’s attribute of rocks shaped in lakes, and on prime of that these rocks are clay minerals or rocks that may solely kind in water,” mentioned Gasda.
Whereas that water is lengthy gone, that doesn’t essentially imply all life is gone too.
“All of the observations now we have up to now counsel sure if there are microbes on Mars like Earth they might be completely advantageous to dwell on Mars,” Gasda mentioned.
Gasda printed his findings within the Journal of Geophysical Analysis, detailing what his group has noticed whereas engaged on the Curiosity Rover. They’ve realized loads from the images.
“Each time we take a look at a picture from Mars we’re the primary individuals to get to have a look at the picture, and we will use our scientific experience to attempt to perceive what’s going on,” mentioned Gasda.
