Curiosity finds evidence of wet and dry seasons on ancient Mars
Curiosity finds evidence of wet and dry seasons on ancient Mars
Scientists: Martian mud cracked in a manner that only happens after repeated cycles of drying
The evidence came from photographs snapped by the NASA bot of the dry, dusty Martian surface marked by a series of hexagonal shapes that indicate mud covered the surface before drying and cracking.
The cracks themselves are mere centimetres deep, which the boffins said suggests short wet-dry cycles "were maintained at least episodically in the long term," which would be yet another favorable condition for the past emergence of life on Mars.
Calling it now: eventually we'll find that Martians fucked up their planet so utterly that their only resort was to come to Earth.
10I just can't suspend my disbelief with that theory. The thing I get caught up on is technology would still exist, knowledge would have gotten passed down.
2The survivors of Mars would have been a small number of billionaires and their hangers on. Martian Elon Musk couldn't resist the temptation to be treated like a god.
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