On Mars were huge tsunami – Popular Mechanics

A team of scientists from Germany, China and the United States concluded that Mars has gone through at least two huge waves generated by meteorites , and passed between the fall of a few million years.

It was a large meteorites – craters with a diameter close to 30 kilometers. After the fall of the waves rose, flooding an area of ​​hundreds of kilometers. When the water receded, it has formed a landscape that we see today.

The first tsunami rocked Mars shortly before the global climate change, and the second meteorite fell on the already much colder planet. Departing on ostyvshim plains, water froze – the remnants of the ice is still there. It is in these areas, scientists plan to look for traces of life on Mars.

Alexis Rodriguez

(Alexis Rodriguez) and his colleagues made the discovery by studying the surface of Mars, namely the Arabian plains and the plain Chryse in the northern hemisphere of the planet. In these places there are geological phenomena that have long resisted the explanation: deep channels that look as if the water is flowing up, not down the hill. Such recesses are formed as a result of the tsunami and the world.

Over the past 3.5 billion years, the fourth planet from the Sun has lost not only the ocean, but also the atmosphere.

The study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.