Finding Proof of Freshwater on Mars

In the past year, researchers have found probable signs of liquid water flowing on Mars’ surface, such as waterlogged molecules, leading to the idea that Mars could possibly sustain life. Hydrated salt was seen through the orbital camera, this is significant because hydrated

Spirit stumbled across rocks that pointed to an earlier, unrulier Mars that was marked by impacts, explosive volcanism and subsurface water [source: NASA Mars]. "Water is key because almost everywhere we find water on Earth we find life," NASA's Web site. However, we are still unsure life existed on Mars.

Mars has a total of 43,000 craters. Mars is also close to the asteroid belt in which mars has a greater chance getting hit and causing a crater. There is also a volcano called Arisa Mons. Arisa Mons has various caves. The caves are known to be called “seven sisters.” The cave entrance measure 100 m to 252 m wide and are also believes to be 73 m to 96 m deep. Mars lost its magnetosphere 4 billion years ago. It is believed that mars lost its magnetosphere because of it various asteroids strikes. Also methane was detected in the Martian atmosphere. It is suggest the methane may last as long as 4 earth’s years and as short as 0.6 earth’s years. The curiosity rover landed in august of 2012. The curiosity rover was able to make measurements that distinguished between different isotopologues of methane. The most accurate information found on earth would have to be the 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Opportunity rover, and Curiosity rover. The curiosity rover was the first to find deep samples. When mars is close to the sun it looks yellow, orange, or red. Mars actual color is butterscotch and the redness is mostly because of the dust. The only other country to land a spacecraft on mars was the Soviet Union in 1971 and

Currently NASA is working on exploring Mars. They send rovers to collect samples of the Mars terrain. NASA has found some sort of plant life on Mars which leads them to believe that there is water on Mars or previously was. This

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This finding comes in a long string of other findings that water once existed on Mars. Just last month,

This allows us to evaluate methods that will be required to detect past or present life on Mars. In this study, we use analogs on Earth and develop a test procedure with the aim of arriving at a method suitable for analyzing Martian crust

Proof; There is No Life On Mars While many people still believe Mars is sustainable for life evidence concludes there are no life forms on the “Red Planet” Mars. It is a given that in order for any type of life to occur water is a necessity. On our neighboring planet Mars scientists have recently discovered ice caps on both the north and south poles. These ice caps may not be the only form of water, and nothing more than dry ice, but they are definitely the only reliable source.

Mars researchers have already accepted that there was water on Mars “Nearly a decade ago, NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor took pictures of what appeared to be water bursting through a gully wall and flowing around boulders and other rocky debris. In 2011, the high-resolution camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured what looked like little streams flowing down crater walls”. Scientist have accepted the evidence so the actual controversy is limited to skeptics who believe the pictures from Mars are faked and the entire idea of space exploration is a

Things started to heat up on June 19, 1976. “NASA's Viking Project found a place in history when it became the first U.S. mission to land a spacecraft safely on the surface of Mars and return images of the surface” (Mars Exploration-Program and Missions para. 3). Although many explorations were successful, multiple missions to Mars failed. These included Mariner 3, Mariner 8, Mars Observer, Mars Climate Orbiter, and Mars Polar Lander and Deep Space 2. With all of the countless flyby spacecrafts, orbiters, and rovers, it was on September 28, 2015, that NASA announced to the world that their Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) had found evidence that liquid water was flowing on present day Mars. ‘“This is a significant development, as it appears to confirm that water -- albeit briny -- is flowing today on the surface of Mars”’ (NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars para. 3). The discovery of water on Mars brings us closer to finding out if there is intelligent life beyond Earth and shows us where valuable resources are (like water) to support life in the future. Liquid water was actually found at multiple locations on Mars. “The spectrometer observations show signatures of hydrated salts at multiple RSL locations, but only when the dark features were relatively wide” (NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flow’s

Is there life on Mars? Can we live here on this Red Planet? NASA believes we can send "Martians" to Mars. The word "Martian" would refer to an astronaut that they would be sending to Mars. NASA's plan is to send a rover to Mars by the year 2020 that is specially equipped for studying the availability of Martian resources, including oxygen. By 2030, NASA is expected to send the "Martians" to Mars in hope to make ground breaking discoveries about this interesting planet. Currently, scientists are unsure about inhabiting Mars, but they believe it is very possible. Scientists have recently discovered frozen water on this mysterious planet. This water is leading them to believe that there was inhabitance on Mars long ago. Scientists are working diligently research as much as they can before launching the astronaut to

Today the world now knows for sure, that water flows on Mars. Hydrated minerals on slopes of Mars were found on mysterious streaks of land using a MRO. These streaks appear to flow down slopes during warm season and then fade when the temperature drops. This is the first substantial evidence to support that there is water on Mars. I think that this is really cool because I still believe that on day we will have to live on Mars one day. I don't necessarily want to in my lifetime, but I still think it would be very cool none-the-less.

‘’Are we the only one?’’ sang Marcus Jung in his song ‘’Life on Mars’’. Over the last fifty years, the NASA and other important institutions, such as ESA, have reported important discovery about life on other planets. Forms of life and similar living conditions, such as oxygen and water, have been found on Mars. Therefore, enigmas and new interesting questions are starting to emerge, that is whether human beings could actually live on Mars, whether there might be aliens and whether we may begin a form of colonization.

Recent evidence points to the very fine dust also being spread across the planet by water, backed up by the presence of channels and ducts across the surface of Mars. The iron within the dust reacted with oxygen, producing a red rust colour, while the sky appears red as storms carried the dust into the atmosphere. There are signs of liquid water on Mars. For years Mars has been known to have water in the form of ice. The first signs of trickling water are dark stripes or stains on crater wall and cliffs seen in satellite images. Due to Mars atmosphere this water would have to be salty to prevent it from freezing or vaporizing. Mars has a lot of flood and river channels suggesting that a long time ago liquids water flowed on Mars during a time when Mars was a warm and wet planet with a thicker atmosphere.

Mars is the planet nearest to Earth that we are most likely to explore and send