The announcement that water has been found on the Red Planet just happens to have emerged at the same time as the Matt Damon film,with Nasa branding all over it, is released. Spooky, and what?It could hardly have come at a more spookily appropriate time: just when film-fans and the media are getting excited approximately the entertaining current sci-fi film The Martian,approximately a troubled Nasa mission to Mars, released this week in both UK and the US. Matt Damon’s lovely chops in his space-helmet are all over the airwaves and the billboards, and promoting a film with which Nasa has cooperated,with generous use of their branding. And now Nasa itself has chosen this moment to fetch us all excited approximately some news approximately the red planet.
They’ve offered an answer to David Bowie’s famous question approximately whether there is life on Mars. Well … yes! Or rather … not precisely! But there is water. Water that could sustain life! Possibly! Nasa has now revealed that there is evidence of stain-marks on Mars’s canyons and crater-walls: water is trickling downhill before drying up in the valleys and plains. The water flows could lead Nasa or another country’s space agency to potential sites where life on Mars could be found.
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Source: theguardian.com