Mysterious black rock suggests aliens bathed in hot springs on Mars 4.5billion years ago, say scientists
According to scientists, a mystery black rock from Mars indicates that more than four billion years ago, aliens may have had a bath in the planet’s hot springs.
The earliest evidence of hot water on Mars appears to have been discovered by recent study, indicating that the planet may have once been livable.
A sample of a Martian meteorite called “Black Beauty” was examined by a group at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.
A grain of zircon, the black crystal that comprises a portion of the rock, was the subject of their most recent investigation.
The sample was successfully dated to 4.45 billion years ago, which is around when the Earth is believed to have formed.
More importantly, however, the study discovered “fingerprints” of water in the grain, indicating that the Red Planet may have boiling water.
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This is thought to have existed as hydrothermal springs that were heated by magma that came from beneath the crust of the earth.
Scientists believe that similar springs were essential to the emergence of life on Earth.
This would suggest that extraterrestrial life in its prehistoric form might have existed in the Martian environment.
The study’s co-author, Dr. Aaron Cavosie, stated: “We found elemental evidence of boiling water on Mars 4.45 billion years ago using nano-scale geochemistry.
The emergence of life on Earth depended on hydrothermal systems, and our research indicates that water—a necessary component of habitable environments—was present on Mars as early as the crust’s formation.
“The researchers discovered element patterns in this unusual zircon, including iron, aluminum, yttrium, and sodium, using nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy.
As the zircon developed 4.45 billion years ago, certain elements were added, indicating the presence of water during the early stages of Martian magmatic activity.
“This new study takes us a step further in understanding early Mars, by way of identifying tell-tale signs of water-rich fluids from when the grain formed, providing geochemical markers of water in the oldest known Martian crust.”
It follows SunTech’s roundup of six of the most enigmatic images ever seen on Mars.
These included a large building that resembled a doorway and an unsettling statue that some have claimed to be proof of an extraterrestrial civilization.
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