The possibility of Life on Mars is a subject of significant interest to NASA due to its similarities to Earth. To date, no proof has been found of past or present life as we know it, however, recent advances suggest the Red Planet once flowed with water. The discovery means the planet may have once harvested life in conditions that were much warmer and wetter than today.
It was revealed during Amazon Prime’s “Spacefiles” series how one of NASA’s space probes captured evidence of the ancient remains where water may once have been found on Mars.
The 2004 series detailed: “The Mars Global Surveyor has revolutionised our view of the Red Planet.
“By bouncing back pulses of laser light from the surface it has mapped the contours of Mars.
“Here in false colour, red and white indicate highlands and lowlands are in green and blue.
The NASA spaceship uncovered ancient remains (Image: GETTY/AMAZON)
The Orbiter mapped out the findings (Image: WIKI)
The Mars Global Surveyor has revolutionised our view of the Red Planet
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“The blue colours represent the deepest depressions, showing the remains of a huge impact.”
The series went on to explain how the remains of an ancient flood channel may be present in the images, too.
The narrator added: “Today it is too cold for water to flow on Mars, but it probably did when these peaks erupted.
“Rising from the depths, hot magma may have melted subsurface ice, unleashing vast quantities of water flooding the terrain.
“Beneath ash and lava to the east of Tharsis [volcanic plateau], the Global Surveyor has imaged an ancient flash flood channel, here in blue.”
NASA are interested in Mars due to its similarities to Earth (Image: GETTY)
The images show the different elevations on Mars (Image: AMAZON)
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