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TIL about the Young Sun paradox where the riverbeds of Mars contradict the like surface temperature of the planet when they were formed. My question is: Why are scientists so certain that water was the liquid that filled the riverbeds? Conversely is it possible that there was another source of heat?

by /u/simAlity in /r/askscience

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