Scientists at the US space agency NASA announced Thursday that they had found the first evidence of flowing water on Mars. If confirmed, the evidence gathered by the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter, would be the first discovery of active liquid water in the ground on the red planet.
"We have found repeated and predictable evidence suggesting water flowing on Mars," Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration program, told a press conference broadcast on NASA television. NASA said the orbiter circling Mars since 2006 had monitored numerous instances of what appeared to be water flows occurring in several locations during the Martian Spring and Summer.