Mars once had salt lakes similar to the ones on Earth and has gone through wet and dry periods, according to a new study.
The researchers from Texas A&M University College in the US examined Mars” geological terrains from Gale Crater, an immense 95-mile-wide rocky basin that is being explored by the NASA Curiosity rover since 2012 as part of the MSL (Mars Science Laboratory) mission, according to the study published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
The results show that the lake, which was present in Gale Crater over three billion years ago underwent a drying episode, potentially linked to the global drying of Mars.