Friday, December 8, 2006

Life on Mars!!!!

The European Space Agency said that it has found new evidence that water may flow on the surface of Mars. The Mars Express orbiter will follow up on the new evidence.

Scientists said that pictures taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor show changes in craters that provide the strongest evidence yet that water coursed through them as recently as several years ago, and is perhaps doing so even now.

Global Surveyor previously spotted tens of thousands of gullies that scientists believed were carved by fast-moving water coursing down cliffs and steep crater walls.

In both craters, scientists found light-colored deposits several hundred meters (yards) long in gullies that weren't present in the original photos. They concluded that the deposits — possibly mud, salt or frost — were left there when water recently cascaded through.

"It's all pointing in certain directions, but of course it's not strong enough evidence to really make a statement on the existence of life. But it is certainly something which would be consistent with the existence of life," said Michael Khan, a mission analyst and Mars expert at ESA headquarters in Germany.


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