The European Space Agency (ESA) has discovered a ‘smiling’ face on the surface of Mars – and it may be a sign of life on the red planet. The purple “face”, captured by ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, resembles a smiley face or emoji – and is the result of chronic chloride salt deposits, the Agency writes on Instagram. “Once a world of rivers, lakes and possibly oceans, Mars is now revealing its secrets through its chloride deposits,” ESA wrote. “These deposits, remnants of ancient water bodies, could indicate habitable zones from billions of years ago,” he adds. The space photos, as the New York Post notes, are part of a study that mapped nearly 1,000 of the salt deposits on Elon Musk’s beloved planet. Although the size of the smiley face is not yet known, the range for all the photos is between 300 meters and 3 km, the report notes […]
Source: News Beast
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