What Could Have Formed The Channel On Mars?

Scientists have been looking for habitat on other planets. Mars is a good planet to start looking at. Scientists have found a channel on Mars that indicates the planet could have been habitable at one point. What geological process formed the channel on Mars? Could flowing water or lava have formed the channel? I believe that flowing water created the channel found on Mars.

What could have formed a channel on Mars? I found that in the evidence card A it showed examples of different channels formed by flowing water in different parts of the world. There was a particular channel called the Madre de Dios River in Mexico that was very similar to the channel found on Mars. The Madre de Dios River had lots of branching, narrow, and branching was widespread. When the Madre de Dios River …show more content…
This shows that there are quite a bit of similarities between the flowing water channels and the channel on Mars. On the evidence card C there was a flowing water model. The flowing water model showed an example of how the channel on Mars could have looked. The model looked similar to the satellite image of the channel on Mars. The flowing water model also showed that even when water stops flowing through a channel, the landform remains. This shows that the channel on Mars could have been created through flowing water. The defining point that revealed whether or not the channel on Mars was formed by flowing water or lava was on the evidence card F and the Background Information: Rock Types. Background Information: Rock Types card talks about the types of rock that flowing water and lava can create. Flowing water creates a type of rock called sedimentary rock, one type of sedimentary rock is conglomerate rock. While rock created by flowing lava creates a rock type called basalt,