NASA confirmed mysterious Reflections on Mars that shocks Elon Musk in our solar system Mars
has received the greatest exploration Mars the planet located fourth from the Sun is well known
for its Rusty red Hue a globe with very little atmosphere the red planet is a frigid arid world
the planet is far from boring despite being Dusty and as far as we can tell lifeless it
can get so cold that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere condenses directly into snow or
frost on Mars an extraordinary dust storms that are so enormous they cover the entire
planet frequently shake things up Mars Quakes are also a common occurrence ancient Chinese
astronomers refer to Mars as the fire star and today's astronomers are still enthralled by the
red planet's Mysteries there is still plenty to learn about Mars despite the fact that hundreds
of spacecrafts have been launched there most scientists still can't sleep at night due to
the numerous unanswered questions surrounding the red planet in the most recent finding is
not an an exception what could this be that shock even the SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hello everyone and
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videos and let's get started a radar signal that could be interpreted as proof of liquid water was
discovered in 2018 according to research using data from the Mars Advanced radar for subsurface
and ionosphere sounding or marsus that instruments on board the European space agency's Mars Express
Mission Ultima scopely a location in the Martian South Pole was the source of that signal A
peculiar bright reflection according to their latest findings the signal from the reflection
may not have originated from the ice itself or even from liquid water but rather from beneath
ice geological layers consisting of minerals and froze in carbon dioxide it was discovered
that the unearthly reflection is specifically caused by the layer thickness rather than the
material of the layer on earth liquid water is a common source for stunning Reflections like these
for instance sub-glacial Lakes like Lake vostok in Antarctica which has been buried under more
than three kilometers of ice for millions of years produce a strong radar signal akin to that of Mars
however this does not prove that there is liquid water present on Mars even if it is likely that
something similar may have happened there as well in order to unravel this puzzle the research team
employed computer simulations and radar data from marsus to determine how layers of ice and other
minerals such as basalt rock that was created following ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars
might respond to incoming light the scientists created simulations Dan laylich a planetary
scientist at Cornell University and the study's primary author made sure to include layers of this
ice in the models because of the Martian South Pole as a tremendous tremendous amount of carbon
dioxide stored there the separation and thickness of layers in addition to the presence of a layer
of carbon dioxide ice beneath a layer of water ice were shown to affect the strength of a reflection
in one particular simulation certain minerals were also found to be able to produce a reflection
similar to this in earlier investigations lalic worked on he thinks it's even possible for the ice
layers that are covered by dust on the red planet regardless the reflection can be made without any
liquid water I could have utilized Rock layers or even exceptionally dirty water ice and I
would have achieved identical findings the author claimed in a statement this paper's main argument
is that layer thickness and separations are more significant than the content of the base layers
he explained however the latest findings do not rule out the possibility that there may be liquid
water present on Mars none of our researchers demonstrated there is no liquid water present
underneath according to laylich I'm not sure anything short of a drill could show either
side of this dispute conclusively right or wrong the researcher said we just think the interference
hypothesis is more consistent with other facts water and perhaps even signs of life may still
be hiding someplace whether behind a glacier or far beneath the planet's burnt Crimson surface
Galileo Galilei was the first to use a telescope to view Mars in 1610. astronomers made the polar
ice caps in the globe known in the century that followed some scientists in the 19th and 20th
centuries most notably Percival Lowell thought they had discovered a system of long straight
canals on Mars that might have been evidence of a past civilization these observations turned out
to be an accurate interpretations of geological features nevertheless over the ages a number of
ocean rocks have fallen to Earth giving scientists a unique chance to examine fragments of Mars
without having to leave our planet Allen Hills 84001 or alh 84001 a martian meteorite that is
thought to contain small fossils and other signs of Martian life was one of the most controversial
discoveries other researchers have questioned this Theory but the team behind the well-known
1996 study is stuck with their conclusion in the discussion concerning alh 84001 is still
going strong today a different meteorite study from 2018 discovered that organic molecules the
carbon containing building blocks of life but not necessarily proof of life itself may have
Arisen on Mars through chemical reactions akin to those and batteries with the launch
of Mariner 4 in 1964 at Mariner 6 and 7 in 1969 by the United States robotic spacecraft started
monitoring Mars in the 1960s early missions showed Mars to be a lifeless Globe devoid of
any indications of the civilization or life that Visionaries like Lowell had speculated might have
existed there Mariner 9 orbited Mars in 1971 charting nearly 80 percent of it and finding
the planet's volcanoes and massive canyons in the 1960s in the first few years of the 1970s
the Soviet Union launched a lot of spacecraft for the red planet but the majority of those missions
were unsuccessful the successful operations of Mars 2 and Mars 3 in 1971 were hindered by dust
storms which prevented them from mapping the surface the very first successful landing on
Mars was made in 1976 when NASA's Viking one laner touched down Viking 2 its identical twin touched
down on Mars six weeks after the first Viking the first ever close-up images of the Martian surface
were taken by the Viking Landers but they did not discover any compelling Proof of Life once more
there has been disagreement Gill Levin the lead researcher of the Vikings labeled release life
detection experiment has consistently insisted that the Landers discovered signs of microbial
metabolism in the Martian soil oil when he was 97 years old Levin passed away in July 2021 Mars
Pathfinder a Lander and Mars Global surveyor in Orbiter two NASA spacecraft that were launched in
1996 were the following two missions to land on Mars successfully the first wield Rover to ever
investigate the surface of another plane it was a little robot named Sojourner that was aboard
the Pathfinder spacecraft for 95 Earth days Sojourner traveled across the planet's surface
studying rocks the Mars Odyssey spacecraft which NASA launched in 2001 found enormous volumes of
water ice beneath the Martian surface particularly in the upper three feet since the probe cannot see
any deeper water it's still unclear if there is additional water underneath Mars came closer to
Earth in 2003 than it had in any time in the previous sixty thousand years in the same year
NASA launched two golf cart sized Rovers known as spirit and opportunity which after landing on
Mars in January 2004 examined various areas of its surface numerous hints that water formerly flowed
across the planet's surface were discovered by both Rovers Phoenix was a later that NASA launched
in 2008 to explore the northernmost regions of Mars and among other discoveries the robot proved
the presence of water ice in the nearby subsoil the Mars reconnaissance Orbiter in Maven which
arrived in Mars in 2006 and 2014 respectively were two additional orbiters being used by NASA to
study the planet and both the Mars Express and the trace gas Orbiter or satellites operated by the
European Space Agency in orbit around the planet NASA successfully landed the Mars Insight Lander
in November 2018 which is analyzing Mars Quakes to learn more about the interior structure and
makeup of Mars and then July 2020 NASA launched the perseverance Rover which will search for life
and store samples in February of 2021 perseverance is just around the same size as curiosity and
Ingenuity a tiny technology demonstrating helicopter touched down on the surface of
the azero crater on Mars to transport people to the Moon Mars and other planets SpaceX is
creating a reusable rocket called Starship and and according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk a crude mission
of Mars could take place in 2029 and that's good in today's episode we hope you enjoyed our video
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