In a study conducted by Roma Tre University, it was discovered that there are many lakes under the surface of the Red Planet. The results obtained from this study also support previous findings.
Mars, one of the planets planned to be colonized in the future, has been researched by scientists for years. According to a new scientific study, there are under the surface of the Red Planet many lakes.
The study, led by Elena Pettinelli from Roma Tre University, used techniques used by scientists to study lakes under the Antarctic glaciers. The researchers to scan the planet’s surface MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) used a system called.
Under the surface of the Red Planet are many lakes.
MARSIS sends radar pulses across the planet. These radar pulses reach below the surface of Mars before returning. In a 2018 study, under the surface of Mars, there is a large lake but scientists at that time doubt whether enough data had been collected to conclude that what was found was water.
The new study conducted by Pettinelli confirms the findings obtained in 2018. The data collected by MARSIS indicate that there is liquid water here. The team also this was not just a large lake, but abe described as a solution of hyper saline (having more salinity than seawater) that network of lakes that discovered could.
The salinity of the lake was what enabled the lakes to remain liquid without freezing despite the freezing cold of the south pole of Mars where the lakes are located. Given that liquid water is a requirement for life to exist in the conventional sense, this study on Mars’s possibility of alien life could help advance the. The team has rolled up their sleeves to take the work further.
