NASA just found fresh liquid evidence on Mars that shocked Elon Musk in a significant
development in the search for life scientists have discovered new evidence of liquid water on
Mars The Discovery is a significant step forward in the Quest for evidence of Mars is wetter than
first thoughts and along with it the Quest for evidence of extraterrestrial life on the planet
the new results according to scientists Mark the first time that proof of water beneath a Martian
surface has been discovered using information that was not obtained using radar in this way
it provides yet another hint that life might exist on the red planet was the red planet
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and let's get started the evidence that water once existed on Mars keeps coming to light and
this time the findings imply that the water flowed in biblical quantities scientists issued a warning
saying the discovery does not necessarily suggest that life exists on Mars however scientists say
that it does imply that the planet may have once been more livable according to musk in
the investigation scientists utilize the lasers on spacecraft to spot minute variations in the
height of the Martian ice caps they then compare those patterns to a computer model that forecast
how a body of water beneath those ice caps would alter the surface and discover that they were in
agreement radar data that indicated there might be water beneath the ice was already discovered
by scientists however some had criticized those conclusions claiming that there were other
explanations for the radar data now the latest discoveries constitute a distinct piece of proof
that Mars does in fact have liquid with water beneath its South Pole musk explained scientists
from the University of Sheffield and the open University were also a part of the project which
was directed by the University of Cambridge their work is detailed in a recent publication titled
surface topographic influence of subglacial water beneath the South polar ice cap of Mars that was
just published at nature astronomy similar to Earth Mars possesses substantial water ice caps
at both poles that are nearly equal and combined volume to the Greenland ice sheet the ice sheets
on Mars were formerly believed to be frozen solid all the way to their beds due to the cold Martian
temperature but the ice sheets on Earth are underlained by water-filled canals and even
sizable subglacial Lakes the studys second author Dr Francis Butcher of the University of Sheffield
stated this study gives the best evidence to date that there is liquid water on Mars today because
it means that two of the most important pieces of evidence we would look for when searching
for subglacial Lakes on earth have now been found on Mars even while it does not necessarily imply
that life is present on Mars liquid water is a necessary component for Life the water beneath
the South Pole might need to be extremely salty in order to be liquid at such low temperatures which
would make it difficult for any microbial life to live there however the fact that more livable
habitats formerly existed during a time when the climate was more forgiving does provide some hope
musk stated scientists peer through Mars's ice top in 2018 using the Mars Express radar of the
European Space Agency it was discovered that the area beneath the ice significantly reflected the
radar signals which led researchers to surmise that it was proof of liquid water after that
however a number of studies showed that other substances might also be reflecting and that
water was less likely to be the source of the reflections because it would require a different
heat source to remain liquid therefore a lot of scientists thought that further proof was
required to show that it was water the researchers principal investigator Professor Neil Arnold of
cambridge's Scott polar Research Institute said the combination of the new topographic evidence
our computer model results and the radar data make it much more likely that Mars has at least
one area of subglacial liquid water today and that Mars must still be geothermally active
in order to maintain the water beneath the ice cap liquid however according to musk the Mars
Express satellite of the European Space Agency recently discovered dazzling Reflections beneath
the surface of the South Pole layer deposit a 1.4 kilometer thick structure of relatively
Pure Water Ice the data was gathered by the marsus or Mars Advanced radar for subsurface
and ionosphere sounding instrument and some scientists believe it to be proof of liquid
water while such a scenario is intriguing Dan lalic a research associate with the Cornell
Center for astrophysics and planetary science in the College of Arts and Sciences argues that the
spld may not actually contain liquid water despite the powerful Reflections they have
developed a different Theory which they describe in explaining bright radar Reflections below the
South Pole of Mars without liquid water which was published in nature astronomy on September
26th they show through computer simulations at equally powerful Reflections can be produced by
interference between geological layers without the use of liquid water or other uncommon elements the
research team which included Valerio pogioli a c caps research associate and Alexander Hayes
an associate professor of astronomy director of ccaps director of the spacecraft planetary image
facility and the Louis Salvatore 92 faculty leadership fellow wrote that their findings
call into question the likelihood of finding liquid water below the spld according to lalic
on Earth Reflections at dazzling are frequently an indicator of liquid water even buried Lakes
like Lake vosttec beneath the surface of the East antarctic ice sheet but the general consensus was
that it should be too cold on Mars for such Lakes to grow however the dazzling reflection still
appears and needs an explanation according to musk lalak studies planetary surfaces using radar data
and his current research on Mars's recent climate change as one of his main areas of Interest his
recent work on modeling radar Reflections off the Martian polar caps places him in a good position
to look into the notion that the planet has liquid water laylik utilized a method of one-dimensional
modeling that is frequently used to evaluate marsus data he built simulations using layers
made of four different substances atmosphere water ice carbon dioxide ice and basalt and gave each
layer a corresponding permittivity a property inherent to the substance that describes how it
interacts with electromagnetic radiation traveling through it simulations that included three levels
two CO2 layers separated by a layer of Dusty ice produced Reflections that were just as intense as
the measurements because we are aware that CO2 is already present in significant amounts close
to the ice cap surface said I employed layers of CO2 embedded within the water ice although
I would have achieved comparable results if I had utilized Rock layers or even exceptionally Dusty
water ice this is only theoretically possible the main thesis of This research is that the
layer thicknesses and separations matter more than content of the base layers the simulations help
the researchers to conclude that the composition of the layers has less of an effect on reflection
power than do their thickness and distance from one another according to the researchers we have
proved that it is possible to create dazzling Reflections without liquid water even though no
single simplify stratigraphy in the manuscript is able to explain every observation lilac was part
of a team of researchers who discovered in 2021 that a type of mineral known as smectites which
are prevalent on Mars can produce a reflection that resembles the one scene from marsus under
the appropriate circumstances idling musk does not completely exclude the possibility of liquid water
which might have significant ramifications for the age of the Polar camp the internal heating of Mars
and the evolution of the planet's temperature in the geologically recent past according to musk
none of our research has been able to rule out the possibility of liquid water being there underneath
we merely believe that the interference hypothesis fits the data better I doubt that anything short
of a drill could demonstrate categorically whether one side of this argument is correct or incorrect
musk finally explained and that ends today's episode we hope you enjoyed our video please
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