NASA's Curiosity rover finds clues to how water helped shape Martian landscape
Monday, December 8, 2014 - 16:00
in Astronomy & Space
Observations by NASA's Curiosity Rover indicate Mars' Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years. This interpretation of Curiosity's finds in Gale Crater suggests ancient Mars maintained a climate that could have produced long-lasting lakes at many locations on the Red Planet.