Source: SPACE.COM
Mankind has sent several probes to Mars and we know that the red planet of today can be described as crusty, dusty and rusty.
Surface features of the Red Planet, however, hint at a watery past where torrents of groundwater carved out deep canyons, formed sweeping fans of sediment and cemented together huge fault lines.
A new study by Allan Treiman, a scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, details the role of groundwater in depositing minerals in rocky Martian crevices. (read more...)
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