Water on Mars BOMBSHELL: Did NASA find PROOF of life on Red Planet in huge ancient sea?

According to the MailOnline, while carrying out its first Red Plant rover in 1997, the NASA probe landed in a part of an inland sea, where floods once decimated the land. The first rover could have seen the massive flood plains when it was originally deployed. NASA believe these would be bigger than anything found on Earth.

The Pathfinder bot first went to Mars before a Martian probe called the Sojourner was deployed as part of the Pathfinder mission.

Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Alexis Rodriguez said: “Our paper shows a basin, with roughly the surface area of California, that separates most of the gigantic Martian channels from the Pathfinder landing site.

“Debris or lava flows would have filled the basin before reaching the Pathfinder landing site.

“The very existence of the basin requires cataclysmic floods as the channels’ primary formational mechanism.”

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The Sojourner explored much of Mars and saw that the water depths had been 10 times shallower than when observed from above the planet.

The study was published in the Scientific Reports journal.

Mr Rodriguez said the basin is covered by sedimentary deposits with a distribution that precisely matches the inferred extent of inundation from potential catastrophic floods, which would have formed an inland sea.

He argues that this sea is approximately 250km upstream from the Pathfinder landing site, an observation that reframes its paleo-geographic setting as part of a marine spillway, which formed a land barrier separating the inland sea and a northern ocean.

He added: “Our simulation shows that the presence of the sea would have attenuated cataclysmic floods, leading to shallow spillovers that reached the Pathfinder landing site and produced the bedforms detected by the spacecraft.”

NASA spent around $280million (£211million) on the original mission in 1997.

PSI Senior Scientists Bryan Travis also felt the simulations indicated that the sea rapidly became ice-covered.

They then disappeared within a few thousand years due to its rapid evaporation and sublimation.

source: express.co.uk