{"id":1529587,"date":"2022-06-27T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T19:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529587"},"modified":"2022-06-27T15:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T19:19:44","slug":"amazing-mars-photos-reveal-planets-startling-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazing-mars-photos-reveal-planets-startling-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Mars Photos Reveal Planet\u2019s Startling Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famazing-mars-photos-reveal-planets-startling-past%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1529587&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Photos from NASA\u2019s Curiosity mission might reveal evidence of climate change on Mars that includes the drying up of a previous watery surface.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were released last week in a statement from NASA regarding Curiosity\u2019s decade-long mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe no longer see the lake deposits that we saw for years lower on Mount Sharp,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasas-curiosity-captures-stunning-views-of-a-changing-mars-landscape?utm_source=iContact&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=nasajpl&#038;utm_content=media-curiosity20220622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity\u2019s project scientist at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cInstead, we see lots of evidence of drier climates, like dry dunes that occasionally had streams running around them. That\u2019s a big change from the lakes that persisted for perhaps millions of years before,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that over the past year, the Curiosity rover has traveled across a transition area from a \u201cclay-rich region\u201d to an area filled with sulfate. The observations could provide a record of an ancient shift in the red planet\u2019s climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Images of finger-like rocks have also supported the likelihood of groundwater moving through certain areas of Mars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey likely formed billions of years ago when groundwater moved through, leaving minerals behind. In the Martian atmosphere, winds eroded the softer parts and left the harder bits behind,\u201d the Curiosity Rover\u2019s Twitter account observed alongside an example of one image.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fingerling\u2026rocks? I spotted these odd shapes while I was exploring. They likely formed billions of years ago when groundwater moved through, leaving minerals behind. In the Martian atmosphere, winds eroded the softer parts and left the harder bits behind. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XKbiJuUMEC\">https:\/\/t.co\/XKbiJuUMEC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U091p6DOf1\">pic.twitter.com\/U091p6DOf1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarsCuriosity\/status\/1537188853500432384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Curiosity\u2019s mission has already revealed images that support the view that ancient Mars experienced a climate that may have included long-lasting lakes.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pretty ain\u2019t it?<br \/>I\u2019m trekking through a transition zone between a clay-rich area and one filled with sulfate. Groundwater ebbed and flowed over time through these geologic features, leaving a puzzle my team and I can\u2019t wait to solve. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/umIr7ctS3r\">https:\/\/t.co\/umIr7ctS3r<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gZ8aSzYwtn\">pic.twitter.com\/gZ8aSzYwtn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarsCuriosity\/status\/1539737105990971393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the investigation of the Gale Crater suggested the water and sediment flow may have been massive enough to build the three-mile-high Mount Sharp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf our hypothesis for Mount Sharp holds up, it challenges the notion that warm and wet conditions were transient, local, or only underground on Mars,\u201d Vasavada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press\/2014\/december\/nasa-s-curiosity-rover-finds-clues-to-how-water-helped-shape-martian-landscape\/#.VIZQdNLF9qM\">said<\/a> regarding the previous findings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA more radical explanation is that Mars\u2019 ancient, thicker atmosphere raised temperatures above freezing globally, but so far we don\u2019t know how the atmosphere did that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2014\/12\/08\/369469567\/nasa-photos-show-new-signs-of-a-lake-on-mars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">observed<\/a> sedimentary rocks that led to the suggestion that Mars once held freshwater. Images in 2012 also observed small rocks that looked like they had been smoothed and shaped by water.<\/p>\n<p>Much speculation circulated online after one Curiosity image appeared to show a \u201cdoor\u201d on Mars. However, NASA has noted the image captured a natural geologic feature, despite the familiar door-like look.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some of you have noticed this image I took on Mars. Sure, it may look like a tiny door, but really, it\u2019s a natural geologic feature! It may just *look* like a door because your mind is trying to make sense of the unknown. (This is called &#8220;pareidolia&#8221;) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TrtbwO7m46\">https:\/\/t.co\/TrtbwO7m46<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VdwNhBkN6J\">pic.twitter.com\/VdwNhBkN6J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarsCuriosity\/status\/1527039648110759936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discussion of water on Mars is not limited to the Curiosity mission. NASA has investigated evidence of ancient water on the planet since the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScientists have traced the tracks of ancient water across Mars ever since the 1970s, when orbiters revealed branching valley networks that matched the dendritic shape of water-eroded valleys on Earth,\u201d Science Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/nasa-s-new-rover-will-collect-martian-rocks-and-clues-planet-s-ancient-climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. \u201cIn the 1990s, the Mars Global Surveyor zoomed in on deeply incised gullies that could only have been carved by powerful flows of water\u2014and may even have glimpsed shorelines from an ancient ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos from NASA\u2019s Curiosity mission might reveal evidence of climate change on Mars that includes the drying up of a previous watery surface. The findings were released last week in a statement from NASA regarding Curiosity\u2019s decade-long mission. \u201cWe no longer see the lake deposits that we saw for years lower on Mount Sharp,\u201d said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1529700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1529700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}