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submitted 1 year ago by aranym@lemmy.name to c/science@beehaw.org

The evidence came from photographs snapped by the NASA bot of the dry, dusty Martian surface marked by a series of hexagonal shapes that indicate mud covered the surface before drying and cracking.

The cracks themselves are mere centimetres deep, which the boffins said suggests short wet-dry cycles "were maintained at least episodically in the long term," which would be yet another favorable condition for the past emergence of life on Mars.

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[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Calling it now: eventually we'll find that Martians fucked up their planet so utterly that their only resort was to come to Earth.

[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I just can't suspend my disbelief with that theory. The thing I get caught up on is technology would still exist, knowledge would have gotten passed down.

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The survivors of Mars would have been a small number of billionaires and their hangers on. Martian Elon Musk couldn't resist the temptation to be treated like a god.

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