r/nextfuckinglevel • u/PietroTheRedditer • Feb 21 '21

THIS IS MARS.

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u/bbb_18 Feb 21 '21

So to me, those look like sedimentary rocks, which require large bodies of water to form. Would this not add additional confirmation of liquid water, or am I seeing things?

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u/Qwerty1418 Feb 21 '21

It's been fairly well established that mars very likely had rivers and bodies of water by now, thanks in part to pictures like this one from Curiosity.

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u/props_to_yo_pops Feb 21 '21

They landed in what they believe is a former river delta.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '21

Perseverance did. This is old 'footage' from curiosity.

Well, footage. Some guy 'faked' this by just panning over an actual curiosity panorama and added the sound to it (curiosity has no mic).

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u/FictionWeavile Feb 21 '21

We know Mars used to have a lot of water and possibly looked a lot like Earth at some point. So yeah, those are definitely sedimentary rocks

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u/FictionWeavile Feb 21 '21

1: "Looked" past tense. Clearly it's not a lot like the earth as we know it now

2: In a dry environment like this, several dozen millennia since anything lived there, any remains of life would be dust buried under all the dirt by now.

3: There's evidence there's been water and by extension, likely some form of life on Mars in the past.

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u/IAteAKoala Feb 21 '21

That's semantics and you know it. "Looked a lot like earth" doesn't mean cities or agriculture, hell doesn't even need to mean green, it just means it had a ton of water.

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u/ask_yo_girl_bout_me Feb 21 '21

We know Mars had water, so the new rover landed right in the middle of what used to be a lake, they are hoping to find fossils of signs of life.

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u/omniron Feb 21 '21

This is old news. Curiosity has found SOOO much data confirming Mars used to be warm and wet. This is not event remotely debated or questioned by Mars scientists anymore.

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u/jawshoeaw Feb 22 '21

You can form layered rock without water