Study confirmed the chemical-filled water on Mars

                                  

The Curiosity rover has recently confirmed that water was once present on the surface of Mars. However, a newly published study has confirmed that the chemical-filled water on mars existed at extremely high temperatures. The equivalent of a hot, briny spring.

Now a remarkable new study has not only found evidence of liquid water on Mars and its chemical impurities, but also the actual temperature at which it existed. The clues come from one of the best resources the scientists have for studying Mars without actually going there – martian meteorites. The ‘nakhlites’ are a class of igneous rock (frozen magma) that formed on Mars about 1.3 billion years ago, were blasted from the surface in a giant impact event about 11 million years ago, and have been falling onto the Earth during in the past 10,000 years 

Mars really has, and used to have, a strong potential for life – but the fundamental nature of the Martian habitable zone is different from that of Earth. It appears to have been episodic, and reliant on mechanisms such as impact events in ways that may be unique to this dusty red world.