Published February 09,2023
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the “clearest evidence yet” of historic water ripples shaped inside lakes, in line with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
“Billions of years ago, waves on the surface of a shallow lake stirred up sediment at the lake bottom, over time creating rippled textures left in rock,” mentioned the JPL, NASA’s federally-funded analysis and growth heart.
The rover has been exploring Mars since 2012 and sending again photos of rippled patterns on the floor of the crimson planet.
“This is the best evidence of water and waves that we’ve seen in the entire mission,” mentioned Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity’s challenge scientist at JPL. “We climbed through thousands of feet of lake deposits and never saw evidence like this-and now we found it in a place we expected to be dry.”
Since 2014, the rover has been ascending the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile (5-kilometer) mountain that was as soon as laced with lakes and streams that might have offered a wealthy setting for microbial life, in line with the JPL.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
