The US space agency “NASA” revealed a snapshot, from its “Curiosity” vehicle, showing “compelling evidence” of the presence of water in an area of Mars that was previously thought to be barren land, and helped the rover that has been exploring the Red Planet for more than a decade. Over time, scientists have understood a lot about Mars since it landed on its surface in 2012.
The recent discovery in a region of the planet known as the “sulfate-bearing unit” excited NASA scientists in particular, after they found “the clearest evidence yet” of the likely existence of a large lake in an area previously thought to have contained only small drops of water.
And the Curiosity spacecraft recently discovered a wavy rock texture indicating the presence of lakes in an area of ancient Mars that scientists expected to be drier.
“This is the best evidence of water and waves we’ve seen in the entire mission,” Aswin Vasavada of NASA said in a statement this week. “We climbed the lake sediments thousands of feet up and we’ve never seen evidence like this. And now we’ve found it in a place where we expected it to be dry.”