Space ‘The greatest treasure hunt’

[digrar]

NASA is scouring the outback for clues to Mars. But the evidence is being stolen

NASA and European Space Agency scientists are in remote Australia learning about the origins of life on Earth, and it's all to prepare for "the greatest treasure hunt ever" — the next mission to Mars.

www.abc.net.au

‘The greatest treasure hunt’
Searching for life on Mars, scientists turn to the Australian outback for clues, but find the key to humanity’s ancient past and its next frontier is under threat.
By national Indigenous affairs correspondent Isabella Higgins
Updated 1 Sep 2019, 9:09am
Published 1 Sep 2019, 4:04am
There are parts of Western Australia that remain almost untouched by humanity.

The rugged ranges and red earth stretch uninterrupted as far as the eye can see.

It is similar to the environment of Mars billions of years ago, before the planet lost much of its atmosphere.

Parched river beds snake between rocky outcrops, with just a few specks of greenery rising from the thirsty landscape.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/11454102
In north-west Australia, the landscape is covered in ancient outcrops. ABC News: Elena De Bruijne
Eucalyptus trees clutch to the sides of an almost dry creek and only mounds of hardy spinifex grow out of the rocky earth.

There are small marks of mankind on the environment, ancient forms in the Aboriginal rock art carved into the landscape.

One of those image heavy interactive style ABC pieces, best viewed at the link.

 

[BCNTM]

they might find 'life' but no culture ? ?

 

[Jake84]

So this is it. Australia is the birthplace of humanity... hold my beer Africa.