Proof of the existence of lakes on Mars

Lakes of liquid water existed on Mars at a time when the planet previously considered frozen desert, new satellite images showed it.




Reconstruction of Martian lakes.

Lakes, seas and rivers may have existed on the planet in the period of time between 3, 8 billion and 4 billion years ago, experts say. New high definition images obtained from the US space agency spacecraft «Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter».









Dry lakes are a good place to go in search of signs of microbial life now extinct, scientists say. A new study has shown for the first time, small sinuous channels connected cavities. Their appearance were allegedly made lakes on higher ground breaking, exiting their banks and the water flowing into the lower lying lakes.

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