• TheCaconym [any]
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    the terrain looks like water flowed through it at some point

    It does so on Mars as well

    The entire crater where curiosity roams used to be a freshwater lake

    • daisy
      ·
      1 year ago

      The big success story of the Mars rover and orbiter missions has been the confirmation of Mars as a former water world, with current massive deposits of water ice almost everywhere that would be accessible with a plain old backhoe if we could land one. For example there's a subsurface glacier in Utopia Planitia starting at just a few metres under the dirt that has more water, in the form of ice, than Lake Superior here on Earth.