Scientists have found new evidence for water on Mars

Geologists found in the soil, special salts-perchlorate, due to which the water can remain liquid in all conditions.

Scientists have created an analogue of the soil of Mars, and came to the conclusion that the water can stay in them in the liquid state even at low temperatures due to the presence of particular salts of perchlorates. The researchers ‘ findings were published in the journal Nature Communications.

In December 2012, researchers at NASA announced that they found in the soil of Mars, perchlorates – chlorine compounds, oxygen, and simple organics.

In the study, researchers created a full simulator of the soil of Mars, he filled it with perchlorates and water, and made sure under what conditions it continued to remain liquid.

As shown by these experiments, one of the perchlorates, the compound of chlorine and oxide of magnesium, an extremely unusual way affect the water acting on it is similar to if the liquid squeezed a powerful press or an ultra-dense atmosphere of a giant planet. In turn, this “compression” in a special way changed the structure of the water molecules, preventing them from freezing even at temperatures not exceeding minus 60-70 degrees Celsius.

It should be noted that perchlorate is the strongest poison for all forms of life on earth, and recent experiments on growing bacteria in “Martian” soil over the fact that all the colonies of the microbes died in the first 60 seconds after the start of the experiment. If Mars and life exists, it will be fundamentally similar to those of its forms that inhabit the Earth today.

In September 2015, NASA experts held a press conference during which he spoke about what he had found evidence of liquid water on the surface of Mars. Later the Agency was represented animated video that simulates the flow of water on the red planet.

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