Hey there! Guess what? Scientists over at Los Alamos National Labs just dropped a bombshell: they think they’ve found some Earth-like spots on Mars!
So, you know that little guy, the Curiosity Rover? It’s been roaming around Mars since 2015, cruising through the Gale Crater near the planet’s equator.
Their mission? To suss out what Mars is made of and whether it could’ve ever hosted life.
According to Patrick Gasda, one of the researchers at LANL, they hit the jackpot after landing. They found loads of signs of water activity, like old riverbeds snaking into what might’ve been lakes. And get this: the rocks around the crater look like they were formed in water, too.
Sure, the water’s nowhere to be found now, but that doesn’t mean life couldn’t have once thrived there.
Gasda spilled the beans in the Journal of Geophysical Research, laying out all the juicy details they’ve uncovered with the Curiosity Rover’s snapshots.
Imagine being the first to peek at these images from another planet! Gasda and the team get to do just that, and then they put their heads together to make sense of what they’re seeing.
Pretty wild, right? Who knows what else we’ll find out there in the great beyond!
