HW #2 Question #5

     Scientists have observed what they believe to be ancient riverbed on mars from an area known as Arabia Terra. They used new information from NASA's Mar's Reconnaissance Orbiter to find said information. The MRO has a resolution of 6 meters per pixel as opposed to the last mission that had 100 meters per pixel.

     Throughout history as people have looked at other celestial bodies they have thought to have found places where there may be water. Like the man we learned about in class that saw channels of water on the moon. As technology increases, however, these observations are much more credible. Still the only way to definitively prove whether there was water in Arabia Terra or not is to send a mission to the planets surface to analyze, such a plan is in the works now.

http://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/fossilised-rivers-suggest-warm-wet-ancient-mars/

http://mars.nasa.gov/mro/news/whatsnew/