'Mysterious force' turns a planet into a second Earth

While the Earth's landscape was slowly shaped over billions of years of history, on the "neighboring" planet, a landscape similar to life-rich river valleys was created in a matter of weeks, by unexpected events.

New research from the US shows that ancient Mars - the world thought to have been wetter than Earth - quickly and spectacularly possessed river valleys similar to ours. According to geologist Tim Goudge from the University of Texas at Austin (USA), a member of the research team, they have obtained surprising results.

The surface of Mars still has traces of huge broken impact craters, which created the "catastrophic" that helped the landscape become like Earth - (Photo: NASA).

The thing that transforms Mars is what they call a ' mysterious force ' , but it is not aliens, but a force of nature, unintentionally composed of many factors.

In a nutshell, a global cataclysm has transformed primitive Mars into a planet with a system of rivers, lakes, valleys. just like Earth. This cataclysm has a profound cause from asteroids and meteorites that hit Mars during the " early birth of the earth".

According to Science Alert, Mars or Earth both have a "tragic" start by constantly suffering from alien impacts. But vibrant tectonic activity has helped the Earth erase those "scars" . Mars is not. To this day, its surface is still filled with giant impact craters.

So did ancient Mars. Many impact craters became natural reservoirs when Mars was still rich in water. Mars had rivers at that time, but not many, and 24% of the water was still concentrated in these lakes - impact craters.

In an unexpected moment, these water-filled impact craters began to rupture and cause a chain effect. A terrible flood occurred on ancient Mars as evidenced by the 262 broken impact craters that the team of scientists found from NASA data. The flood lasted several weeks, changed the entire Martian landscape, "sculpted" the river valleys exactly like Earth.

Unfortunately, due to many factors, Mars cannot hold its water for long and over the past few billion years has become arid, and may have led to extinction.

The study has just been published in the scientific journal Nature.