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18 Oct 2017

Water once flowed on ancient Mars, says study

The study offers a potential bridge between the "warm and wet" story told by Martian geology and the "cold and icy" past suggested by atmospheric models.

19 Sep 2017

More evidence of water on ancient Mars discovered!

Researchers also developed a method to measure river paleo-transport direction for a subset of these ridges.

06 Sep 2017

Scientists discover boron on Mars that points towards ancient habitability! - Read

When boron is dissolved in water – becoming borate – it will react with the ribose and stabilize it for long enough to make RNA.

16 Sep 2016

Lakes, snowmelt-fed streams on Mars formed much later than previously thought

NASA says these results provide insight into the climate history of the Red Planet and suggest the surface conditions at this later time may also have been suitable for microbial life.

04 May 2016

Volcanoes erupted beneath ice sheet on Mars billions of years ago

The new findings could help reveal if the Martian environment had flowing water and was once habitable.

Comet bombardment

06 Apr 2016

Comet bombardment may have helped ancient Mars support life

The impacts would have produced regional hydrothermal systems on Mars similar to those in Yellowstone National Park, which today harbour chemically powered microbes, some of which can survive boiling in hot springs or inhabiting water acidic enough to dissolve iron nails, said study co-author Stephen Mojzsis from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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