NASA Discovers ‘Clearest Sign’ Yet of Ancient Life on Mars in a Rock Studied by the Perseverance Rover

Ancient beach on Mars discovered by China's Mars rover: 'This strengthens the case for past habitability'

For decades, planetary scientists have suspected that ancient #Mars was a much warmer, wetter environment than it is today, but estimates of just how much water Mars has lost since its formation vary widely. Now, new isotopic measurements by researchers at NASA Goddard reveal that an ocean once covered approximately twenty percent of the #Martian surface. This new picture of early Mars is considerably wetter than many previous estimates, raising the odds for the ancient habitability of the Red P