Icy Clouds Kept Early Mars Warm Enough for Rivers and Lakes
Illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover at work within Mars’s Jezero Crater. (Credit: NASA and JPL-Caltech) (CN) — The latest of NASA’s rovers to successfully land on Mars has found an advantageous location right next to an ancient river delta, and based on new computer simulations, experts believe the now-barren planet could have had a thin layer of icy clouds at one point, allowing water to flow on the surface. The study was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, where a team of researchers led by University of Chicago planetary scientist ...
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