The European Space Agency has released the clearest images of Mars to date. The photographs transmitted from the Mars Express research station show the so-called Echo Canyon …
This region, located north of the Martian equator, is considered by geologists to be one of the largest sources of water on the Red Planet. The pictures taken with a high-resolution stereo camera show the complex relief of the canyon. The bizarre pattern is formed by one-kilometer-deep hollows - scientists are sure that these hollows were made under the influence of water.
For scientists, the cherished question: "Is there life on Mars?" - has long been reduced to something else: "Is there water on the Red Planet?" The presence of the latter is a necessary condition for the existence of life.
And there is still water on Mars - this was absolutely proved by the Phoenix apparatus, which is now on the surface of the Red Planet …
Channels and hollows found on the surface of Mars suggest that the climate here was more humid in the past, but over time, most of the water evaporated, while at the poles it concentrated under the surface in the form of ice.
Scientists believe that if life ever existed on Mars, then it could well have survived in depressions isolated from the external environment under the ground. It has been proven that terrestrial bacteria can survive even under the most destructive environmental conditions - among volcanoes and in nuclear reactors.
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NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars after humans travel to the moon in 2020, where the agency intends to establish a permanent base. One of the most serious problems on the way to this is the delivery of water necessary for life: this difficult and costly event has been fundamentally solved …