A research team from the University of Bern has discovered traces of rivers on Mars. This provides evidence that the planet was once covered by a large ocean. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The international team led by the University of Bern used images from Mars probes to discover geological structures that resemble river deltas. They report this in a study published in the scientific journal npj space exploration. + "Humans of tomorrow will live on Mars" "The structures that we were able to identify on the images are clearly the mouth of a river into an ocean," said study leader Fritz Schlunegger. Today, the former delta structures are covered by wind-sculpted dunes, but their original shape is still clearly recognisable, according to the researchers. + "We will never live on Mars, or anywhere except Earth" The delta structures discovered are all at a similar height. This enabled the team to reconstruct the sea level and a coastline at that time. The ...
