Scientists gets further evidence that Mars once had oceans Mars,
our neighbor, once the dreams of science fiction writers and
astronomers, one of which only wrote about the live that could
have lived on Mars, and still might; while the other seeks to
prove that there might actually have been life on that red
planet eons ago. Part of proving that idea is being able to show
that there was water on the surface of Mars, water that would
have been the foundation of life, just as it is here on earth.
To help find the facts behind whether there was, or even still
is, water on Mars the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express
space craft which houses the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface
and Ionsphere Sounding (MARSIS) has detected sediment on the
planet, the type of sediment that you would find on the floor of
an ocean. It is within the boundaries of features tentatively
identified in images from various spacecraft as shorelines that
MARSIS detected sedimentary deposits reminiscent of an ocean
floor. “MARSIS penetr