Visual evidence of the existence of water first obtained on Mars. Sensational discovery made on the Red Planet Mars rover Сuriosity. Evidence first found on Mars surface water availability – the bed of an ancient stream is photographed. About it reported by NASA. PHOTO: AP / NASA 
Photo from open sources The channel of the stream, scientists noticed when studied the rover’s snapshot of a piece of conglomerate that formed from cemented layers of gravel. The shape and size of the grains which had a round, water-rolled form, testified to that the photographs capture the bottom of an ancient stream. “The form (grains) indicates that they were moving along the surface. But they weren’t driven by the force of the wind, it was a stream of water, “said one of Curiosity Mission Leaders Rebecca Williams. Researchers even managed to calculate what was its depth and speed. “Water flowed in it at a speed of about 3 feet per second (0.9 m / second), and the depth was somewhere between the ankle and hip, – said an employee of the University of California William Dietrich. -A lot of research has been written on Martian channels, and many hypotheses have been put forward about what flows flowed into them. But this is the first time that we actually see on Mars gravel brought by water. “The ancient channel is in the northern part Gale Crater. That water used to flow in this place, scientists suspected before. This, in particular, was testified to. satellite imagery: they depict a rock removal cone with water, flowing through the crater valley. As noted in NASA, the creek in this the region flowed not one – two years, but a rather long period. Now scientists intend to investigate the chemical composition of stones from dried channel, which will allow, in particular, to learn more about the geological the structure of the Gale Crater. It is possible that they could live in a stream alive organisms. “This is not the best place for living organisms, but guarantee that we’ve already found the first potentially habitable environment, ” – said one of the researchers, John Grotzinger. Recall Mars rover Curiosity, costing NASA $ 2.5 billion, successfully arrived on Red planet on august 6th. In the photos sent by Curiosity earlier, spherical bodies of small size were captured, outwardly reminiscent of either drops or bubbles. Experts have christened their Martian “blueberries” and suggested that the find could become proof of the existence of life on the planet.
A photo from open sources
A photo from open sources
A photo from open sources
A photo from open sources
Victor POSPELOV
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