Ancient lake found on Mars

[anon]

US researchers have uncovered traces of an ancient lake on Mars boosting hopes of discovering evidence that billions of years ago the Red planet hosted life.

The lake, which dates back some 3.4 billion years, appears to have covered as much as 80 square miles and was up to 1,500 feet deep, said the team from the University of Colorado.

"This is the first unambiguous evidence of shorelines on the surface of Mars," said Boulder's research associate, Gaetano Di Achille, in a study published in the latest edition of Geophysical Research Letters.

"The identification of the shorelines and accompanying geological evidence allows us to calculate the size and volume of the lake, which appears to have formed about 3.4 billion years ago.

Ancient lake found on Mars - Telegraph

[slikrapid]

its weird how these scientists get excited about 'water discovery' like its the only way for an organism to be alive

boosting hopes of discovering evidence that billions of years ago the Red planet hosted life.

there is surely life there, maybe in forms of microorganisms, but nevertheless there is some sort of life...hint: dig a little deeper

[kazuya]

maybe they discovered something better and run test all the time and we just get a piece of something not so important every few years.i don't know how many times they announced they discovered something about water on mars,that's not really something new