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Mars may have had ancient megafloods, suggests data from NASA’s Curiosity rover – Deccan Herald
Giant flash floods once washed through Gale Crater on Mars’ equator around four billion years ago, according to a study which hints at the possibility that life…
Giant flash floods once washed through Gale Crater on Mars’ equator around four billion years ago, according to a study which hints at the possibility that life may have existed on the Red Planet.
The research, published recently in the journal Scientific Reports, assessed data collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover — launched in November 2011 — and found that “gigantic flash floods,” likely touched off by the heat of a meteoritic impact, unleashed the ice stored on the Martian surface.
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