A Day in the Life of a Living Mars

Mars is currently dry and cold, but it has been determined that it was once a wet and warm world. Some instruments on the Mars Express probe returned data suggesting that ancient Mars was warm enough to support liquid water on the surface. The probe's instruments detected chemicals formed only in the presence of liquid water. In addition, there are features on the surface, which, according to scientists, were formed as a result of water erosion. A map of Mars in the past clearly shows what the planet might have looked like billions of years ago. Animation by amateur astronomer Kevin Gill, showing us a virtual living Mars that could have existed in its heyday. Such a complete map of Mars was created using data from the laser rangefinder installed on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft and satellite images from the NASA Blue Marble Next Generation project. This map of Mars with the oceans is not entirely accurate, the sea levels were not established from a scientific point of view, but with the expectation that the liquid will flood most of the Mariner's Valley, and also form a coastline in the northern part of the planet, on the outskirts of Mount Olympus. The clouds are taken directly from the same NASA Blue Marble project and are rendered rather arbitrarily, but still look good. This map of Mars with water deserves another name, such as a map of Mars after colonization or a map of Mars after terraforming, but not fictional images of the planet's distant past.