Images of a crater on Mars that was a large lake where there was water

Paris, 2 sep (EFE).-the European Space Agency (ESA) today released several photographs showing a crater in the Highlands of the South of Mars which was a large lake bed when water flowed on the surface of this planet.

The crater of Eberswalde, captured by the Mars Express probe, is 65 kilometres in diameter and formed more than 3,700 million years ago by an asteroid impact, explained ESA in a communiqué.

Although a part of the Eberswalde was covered later by another asteroid impact, which created a second crater, the remains of what at one time was “a large delta, crossed by many rivers arms” are preserved in the visible area.

Delta had over 115 square kilometers of surface and was fed by the aforementioned rivers.

When it dried up, much of these formations were hidden under a layer of sediment arremolinados by the wind.

Analyzed structures – originally identified by the Mars Global Surveyor of the American NASA spacecraft – “are unequivocal proof that long water flowed on the surface of Mars,” said ESA.

Next to the Eberswalde is another crater, the Holden, 140 km in diameter and when it was generated projected rocks that covered much of the first.

One and one are two of the four sites selected for the landing of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission that will take off at the end of this year. EFE

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