7 Recent Discoveries On Mars!
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From things we've found, to things we've deduced, and things we're aiming to find, join us as we explore some of the recent discoveries on Mars!
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7. The Evolution Of Water On The Planet
Without a doubt, one of the biggest and most important discoveries on Mars ever was the proof, definitive proof, that water was on Mars at one time. And, that it's technically there now via ice caps that can be melted for human consumption. It was this simple fact that helped people, and NASA especially, believe that we could actually live on Mars in terms of a colony. A space colony that is. Ever since then, scientists have been trying to learn more about how Mars went from "wet to dry".
Enter the Curiosity Rover, a craft sent to Mars several years ago, and is still active as of 2019. The craft has been surveying the planet, covering over 13 miles in about 7 years (clearly it wasn't built for speed...) and sending images back to NASA while also taking in samples so that they can be observed from afar and analyzed.
The current location of the rover is in a place called Mount Sharp. Specifically, it's in a place on the mountain called Gale Crater, which at one time was said to be filled with many lakes. The Curiosity
6. Methane On Mars
There are many things that make Mars a place to study, including the history of how it became a barren red planet, and the mystery of whether there was ever any life on it in the first place. Usually, people are quick to say that the red planet has never had life, but these were also the same people who said that Mars couldn't have any water on it. And another recent discovery from the Curiosity Rover may prove that life not only could've exited on Mars...but it good exist there now.
Now before you start shouting, "Martians!!!", that's not exactly what we're talking about. Rather, we're talking about the gas known as Methane being discovered once again on Mars. Confused? Well, Methane is a gas that can be made both naturally via the world itself (via a mix of land and water), but also via organic life. As certain kinds of microbes are able to literally exhale Methane. Not unlike how plants exhale Oxygen.
Anyway, in June 2019, the Curiosity Rover not only detected Methan on mars in the Gale Crater, but it was at a level not previous detected before on Mars. It was at 21 parts per billion, which is WAY higher than anything previously. Thus making scientists wonder what exactly is happing on Mars.
5. Massive Tsunami On Mars
The history of Mars is a topic that many scientists at NASA and beyond are trying to figure out so that we can further dictate what we do with it in the future. And one of the biggest things they're trying to figure out are the major events that helped shape the planet as a whole. One big theory that has been thrown around by many is that once upon a time, a massive meteor crash caused a massive tsunami that helped create part of the landscape that we see now.
4. Greenhouse Effect...on Mars?
For those who don't know, the Greenhouse Effect is an atmospheric condition that traps key gasses within the atmosphere of a planet and thus causes the planet to warm up, and if in the wrong amounts, become very uninhabitable. This what is happening on Venus right now, and it's threatening Earth via global warming via human constructs and such.
Being that Mars doesn't have a thick atmosphere (it does keep some gasses in, but not like Earth or Venus), it seems kind of impossible that it would have a Greenhouse Effect of its own, right? Well, yes, unless we make the Greenhouse Effect ourselves.
"This regional approach to making Mars habitable is much more achievable than global atmospheric modification," said Robin Wordsworth, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science. "
3. Creation Of "Blue Clouds"
As we've noted, Mars is known as the "Red Planet" because of the color of its surface, and yet, when it comes to its sky (which again has an atmosphere that's very thin compared to Earth's), there is an oddity that just doesn't seem to make sense. Mainly, it has clouds, blue clouds, and for the longest time no one really know where they came from.
2. A Hole In the Atmosphere
The atmosphere of Mars is a very curious thing.
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