Martian white water rafting, anybody?
could be evidence of a raging, fast-moving river that flowed on the Martian surface billions of years ago.a watery world, featuring lakes and oceans. This new evidence, however, suggests that some of these waterways were far more ferocious than previously thought.
Massive panoramas stitched together from hundreds of images taken by Perseverance revealed new details, including grains and cobbles, that helped the scientists bolster their conclusion. Some of these layers of different deposits spotted by Perseverance are also "anomalously tall for rivers on Earth," according to Ives, stretching up to 66 feet. "But at the same time, the most common way to create these kinds of landforms would be a river."
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