United States.
A new study by NASA and published in the journal “Science” has found evidence that Mars was about 4,500 million years ago , an ocean with a size similar to Atlantic occupying no less than 19% of the planet.
Quite a find, again, reopens the possibility that conditions to give life on the red planet.
Geronimo Villanueva-the engineer who has led this team of experts, has determined that, in addition to the incredible size of the ocean, this had a mass of enough water to cover the entire planet.
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Specifically, this expert says the Martian ocean was located in a basin of deep (up to 1.6 kilometers in some places) and had 20 million cubic kilometers.
In addition, the teacher noted that the area that was counted at least 137 meters deep and occupied most of the hemisphere North of Mars.
To make this discovery, scientists have turned to the European Observatory in the Atacama Desert (Chile), the observatory WM Keck Observatory located in Hawaii and Infrared Telescope NASA also in Hawaii -.
Using the data obtained have been able to ascertain that this ocean covered an area 2% higher than the Atlantic occupies on Earth (17%).
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