Water on Mars? Mysterious Dark Streaks Aren’t What Scientists Thought

In 1976, NASA Viking mission The first spacecraft landed on Mars successfully. When the mission began sending images to the earth from the surface of Mars, scientists mentioned long, dark lines in the direction of the crater walls and cliffs. To today, some researchers have suggested that strange geographical features are the result of water flow – but a recent study has otherwise said.

The planet scientists of the University of Brown University and Burn University have used artificial intelligence that the Mayabi Martian lines are probably not water flow from air and dust. Their results have an important impact on the well -being of the future, as well as the housing environment of humanity and continuous search for life outside the earth.

Some of the OPE lines are prolonged, while others-recurrent OPE Lylu Lonia (RSL)-more periodicals, appears continuously at the same place on the hottest times of Mars of the year. Although Mars is usually dry and Cold (Temperature -225 degrees Fahrenheit, or as low as Celsius of -153 degrees) may mix enough ice, in a small amount of water from underground sources or moisture Salt To become fluid and to make an ope kalu flow. Since water is the key to life on earth, these national structures can also represent the habitable regions of the red planet. However, some researchers are not sure, the argument that can create those features instead of dry processes.

To dispose of the matter, researchers assured an algorithm training in a dataset of OPE Line philosophy, such as detailed in one Study Published on Monday in nature communication journal. They then use algorithms to scan 86,000 high-resolution satellite images and compose maps of Martian Opel Line.

“Once we get this map of this world we can compare it to the database and catalog of temperature, wind speed, hydration, rock slide activity and other factors,” Valentin afternoon, co-authors of research and burn center for space and hability said at a brown university at a brown university, a brown university. StatementThe “Then we can find more than a few thousand cases of mutual relationships to understand the better ones under the conditions under these features.”

Simply put, their results do not link to OPE lines and RSLs with features that indicate the presence of fluid or even snowfall. Instead, researchers have discovered that both OPE -lines and RSLs develop in territories with high air speed and dust accumulation. In other words, they are probably caused by a dry process where the dusty layers suddenly slide to an open aloe, trigger by external energy.

Instead of viewing these results as a more failure in search of an outward life, planet scientists have explained that the study still carries weight for the well -being of the future. If their research confirms the theory that the OPE lines were due to water and as a result the region could organize some life, then NASA would have actually avoided the region. This is because scientists fear that spacecraft and rovers can still shelter the ground life, which can pollute the Martian residence and interfere with our Martian life.

“This is the advantage of this big data method,” the other co-authors of this study and the planet scientist of the University of Brown explained the Martian ghosts who specialized in Martian Geology. “It helps to cancel some estimates from the orbit before sending the spacecraft to explore us.”

In an industry In search of WaterThe study stands as a reminder that not every scientific progress needs to be about the external life.