Astronomers from the University of Utrecht have uncovered the first evidence ever of a river on Mars which flowed across the red planet for more than 100,000 years.
- The river was a deep, fast-flowing torrent of water which existed year-round.
- The river was constantly shifting and creating sandbanks similar to the Rhine, or other rivers in Northern Italy.
- The large cliff face, located at a place called at Izola Mensa in the northwestern rim of the Hellas Basin in Mars’s southern hemisphere, painted the picture of the river.
- The study was published in the journal Nature Communications.
