The meeting of the State Committee on science, space and technology United States, the purpose of which was the discussion of future major scientific and technological projects space Agency NASA, including sending the next Mars Rover in 2020 and a visit to the European space probe with the subsequent possibility of landing on a moon of Jupiter, has taken an unexpected turn when a us Congressman from California Dana Rohrabacher asked the question: “is There any possibility that Mars a thousand years ago there was some kind of civilization?”.
Kenneth Farley, Professor of Geochemistry at Caltech and one of those people who are responsible for implementing the project of sending the Mars Rover in 2020, said the following:
“I am convinced that, uh, there is no evidence. […] I would say that this is extremely unlikely.”
In addition, he corrected Rohrabacher, saying that “there is evidence that Mars was different billions of years ago. But not thousands of years ago.”
Scientists are convinced that the state of the environment of early Mars is much better suited for life. Here was discovered the water. In a climate of this planet was more habitable in the past. Unfortunately, over time, the atmosphere is heavily worn out under the influence of cosmic radiation and solar winds. However, recently a team of researchers from the University of Arkansas said that even the current conditions of Mars would be suitable for existence on the planet for microbial life.
However, the probability that our planetary neighbour was once inhabited by a reasonable civilization, is considered by scientists is extremely malovozmozhnym. Although some sources might not always be reliable sources, claim that the evidence of the existence of the planet a complex of species of living organisms can be found in the photos provided by the Mars Rover “Curiosity”. In particular, we are talking about this photograph received recently:
NASA: On Mars there were no civilizations. At least a thousand years ago
Nikolai Khizhnyak