The United States Space Agency’s (NASA) Mars Explorer Mission, Curiosity, recently took a selfie in front of a beautiful Martian rock outcrop called
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — Mars Explorer Curiosity NASA has just reached a channel called Gediz Vallis. This spot is a great place to take a dramatic alien panorama, but it may also contain hidden clues about ancient water on the planet Mars.
Reported InverseSaturday (6/4/2024), rocks have long shown that Mars wetter and warmer billions of years ago. Current evidence suggests that water on the Red Planet comes and goes gradually.
NASA is looking for clues to a crucial turning point. That is, when these phases end and liquid water disappears permanently from the surface of Mars and forever turns the once wet planet into a barren world like this. Gediz Vallis may contain a clue to this point of the journey to its end.
Office NASA announced on Friday (5/4/2024), when driving along a snake-shaped land feature, this six-wheeled rover will get a new picture of this “Earth-like past”.
Previous satellite data suggested that flowing water may have helped form the channel. Piles of debris in the channel also suggest that water once flowed there.
Geological structures within the channel suggest that the region may have dried out and then flooded again, which is consistent with similar evidence in other areas of Mars that NASA has explored. Scientists now suspect that Gediz Vallis may have formed after a dry period, preceded by another wet period.
The exploration team wants to determine what carved the bedrock to create Gediz Vallis.
“The sides of the formation are steep enough that the team does not think the channel was created by the wind. However, debris flows (rapid, wet landslides) or rivers carrying rocks and sediment may have enough energy to fuse with the bedrock,” according to NASA.
Curiosity has been exploring Mars for more than a decade to understand whether modern, inhospitable Mars was once hospitable to life.
2024-04-06 06:18:37
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