Though it's still a mystery where all of the water came from, it's clear Mars used to have a far warmer and more humid past than the planet does now.
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Though it's still a mystery where all of the water came from, it's clear Mars used to have a far warmer and more humid past. This heavily cratered area is one of the oldest surfaces on Mars and is dated to an age of about four billion years.A spacecraft that orbited Mars for four years returned incredible photos of the red planet
According to the press release, the little branching tributaries were probably carved out by heavy rainfall coupled with surface water runoff from a once-strong river flow.
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