PARIS, July 11 — Mars may now be considered a barren, icy desert but did Earth’s nearest neighbour once harbour life? It is a question that has preoccupied scientists for centuries and fired up sci-fi imaginings. Now three space exploration projects are gearing up to launch some of the...
Mars may now be considered a barren, icy desert but did Earth’s nearest neighbour once harbour life? — Istock.com pic via AFP
Mars is “the only planet with concrete chances of finding traces of extraterrestrial life because we know that billions of years ago it was inhabitable,” said Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of French space agency CNES in a conference call with journalists this week. Fifty years later Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens used a more advanced telescope of his own design to make the first ever topographical drawing of the planet.
Then in 2000 scientists made a game-changing discovery: they found that water had once flowed over its surface.This tantalising finding helped rekindle the latent interest in Mars exploration. The probe is perhaps the most highly-awaited yet. Its landing spot, the Jezero Crater, may have once been a wide, 45-kilometre river delta.
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