Evidence of Water Found on Mars

Scientists found evidence of water on Mars through the European-Russian Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) that follows the ExoMars mission, Earth Sky website reported on Saturday.

Experts who detected it in the Martian Valles Marineris said that the discovered water is most likely in form of ice.

Regarding the process of discovering the water, TGO is using a technology known as FREND which means targeting the hydrogen which is one of water's components.

"FREND revealed an area with an unusually large amount of hydrogen in the colossal Valles Marineris canyon system: assuming the hydrogen is bound into water molecules, as much as 40% of the near-surface material in this region appears to be water," the report highlighted.

The latest discovery made by TGO was not the only recent one about the Martian waters.

Last September, NASA's Perservance probe caught hinted the existence of water on the Red Planet.

The probe initiated an early examination of the previously collected samples from Mars’ surface. The project’s team tweeted under the name of NASA’s Perservance Mars Rover: “My first two rock samples are likely volcanic with hints of salts that may hold bubbles of ancient water.”

The team added: “They’re pieces of a bigger puzzle, to learn: how this area formed – its history of water – if past life ever existed here.”

Ken Farley, the project’s team member, said: “It looks like our first rocks reveal a potentially habitable sustained environment,” asserting: “It’s a big deal that the water was there a long time.”

Perseverance will continue to collect more samples from the Red Planet’s surface to get them back to Earth for more studies.