Scientists suggest that the amount of water which is necessary to support the various life forms has been found on Mars. The red planet includes a huge lake, which is much larger than what we think of as large lakes. Certainly, it was formed around 2 billion to 3 billion years ago.
Further, as the scientists once thought, it clearly implies that the planet Mars had ample or suitable atmosphere left to keep the planet warm enough to sustain the surface water. Presently, the planet is too cold to keep up the surface water. This is simply because the Martian surface is losing most of its warm atmosphere.
Rich Zurek, the scientist of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California claims that the study presents much evidence for episodes of water, transforming the surface of early Mars for probably several hundred million years later than previously thought, along with some implication that the water was emplaced by snow, and not rain.
The scientists believe that there is still a substantial amount of water flowing on the lake basins. Not only this, but they also believe that the water was still overflowing during the said time span.
According to the study team led by Sharon Wilson from the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Virginia, they claim that one of the newly discovered lakes is said to be as large as Lake Tahoe which holds around 45 cubic miles of water.
Basically, NASA's MRO along with other missions like the Curiosity Rover indicated that the lakes and streams had actually existed on Mars 3.7 billions of years ago. Whatever the case may be, but this study has swayed the beliefs of scientists.
Yet, the scientists as well as the researchers who are going along with this new study, states that the surface lakes, rivers as well as the streams had formed much later on the surface of the Red planet than once thought.
