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| Did Cydonians (Or Lucifer?) Once Roam The Red Planet? Curiosity Rover Finds Mars May Have Hosted Life For A Billion YearsJune 13, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor  Gale Crater, the site being explored by the Curiosity rover, was chosen as a landing site because its structure and composition suggested that it might preserve information about Mars’ past. As Curiosity climbed the slopes of the crater’s central peak, various discoveries have clearly indicated that Mars had a watery past. Now, scientists have put all these individual discoveries into a big-picture view of the history of Gale Crater. The picture shows that the crater was water-filled for hundreds of millions of years—and warm for much of that time. A separate paper indicates that long after the crater filled up with wind-blown sand, groundwater still percolated through the area. “Consequently,” the researchers conclude, “the timescale for potential habitability, at least in the subsurface of Gale, must be substantially extended.” We don’t know what that timescale might be because we don’t have a date on the formation of the wind-blown rocks in Gale Crater. But the two sets of results indicate that Mars had the potential to host life for over a billion years. And here on Earth, it took far less than that for life to begin.(READ MORE) |
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