NASA Scientists Have Found Evidence Of Water On Mars


Well, NASA‘s big Mars announcement is here, and as we all kinda suspected, they have not discovered alien life, but have come up with the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows on the surface of the planet.

Jim Green, the space agency’s director of planetary science, told media:
“Our rover’s finding a lot more humidity in the air than we ever imagined. As we inject the soils, they’re most, they’re hydrated, full of water. These discoveries are very important, but only part of the hydrological cycle on Mars that we are just now beginning to understand. What we are going to announce today is Mars is not the dry, arid planet that we thought of in the past. Today, we are going to announce that under certain circumstances liquid water has been found on Mars.”
NASA have been actively investigating the possibility of water on Mars since Georgia Tech doctoral student Lugendra Ojha discovered streaks on the planet in 2011, believing them to be evidence of salty water flow.

Physicist and former astronaut John Grunsfeld said that this discovery does, theoretically, give us hope that there is life on Mars, or was at some point. He said:

“The existence of liquid water, even if it’s super salty briny water, gives the possibility that if there’s life on Mars, it will give us a means to describe how life survived.”.


While we have lots of perfectly good salt water right here on earth and you don’t have to travel 55,000,000 goddamn kilometres to see it, here are some images of the Martian water, should that kind of thing float your boat:

 

via NASA

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