We just solved one of the biggest mysteries about how water flows on Mars

By Ria Misra
Updated May 9 2016 - 10:13am, first published May 3 2016 - 2:34pm
Images show water as it (very, very slowly) flows from season to season. Photo: Coprates Chasma, 2014 / NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Images show water as it (very, very slowly) flows from season to season. Photo: Coprates Chasma, 2014 / NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Researchers just uncovered an incredible fact about liquid water on Mars. It's not just flowing; it's also boiling. And that discovery also solves one of the major mysteries about the surface of the red planet.