Saltwater Pools Reported on Mars

World | March 24, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00

Mars was once a much warmer, wetter place, with pools of saltwater that sometimes flowed across the surface, NASA scientists reported. Analysing findings from rocks explored by the rover Opportunity, the scientists said the rocks now appeared to have formed under a shallow bed of softly flowing water near a shoreline. It was the first concrete evidence that water might have flowed on the Martian surface, and it provided new hints that life may have existed there.

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