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Diving into the icy origins of Martian valleys

I invite you to use Google Earth and explore Mars. Look at the Martian southern hemisphere, and find an arid landscape littered with fossil valleys. These valleys speak of a remote past, when the red planet had water on its surface. There are thousands... click to read more

  • Anna Grau Galofre | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences, CNRS UMR 6112
  • Mark A. Jellinek | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, USA
  • Gordon R. Osinski | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, USA
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on Apr 1, 2022
How to search for water on Mars

The presence of water is considered a necessary condition for the existence of life as we know it. Even if Mars is today a cold and arid place, there is ample evidence that things were different in the past, and that rivers, lakes and perhaps... click to read more

  • Roberto Orosei | Staff researcher at Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Istituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna, Italy
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Reading time 4 min
published on Oct 1, 2018