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In the foothills of a Martian mountain, NASA's Curiosity rover found ... the new images from Curiosity show evidence of a shallow lake. "Billions of years ago, waves on the surface of a shallow ...

Globally, shallow lakes are an important source of methane (CH₄) emissions to the atmosphere. Previous studies of such lakes have rarely focused on the within-lake spatiotemporal variability, which is ...

The shallow, salty body of water situated on volcanic rock — known as Last Chance Lake — holds clues that carbonate-rich lakes in ancient Earth could have been a “cradle of life ...