Further missions studied the Earth from above, such as one that used of a type of radar to probe below the surface —
discovering ancient riverbeds beneath the Sahara Desert, for example.
Extensive systems of fossilised
riverbeds have been
discovered on an
ancient region of the Martian surface, supporting the idea that the now cold and dry Red Planet had a warm and wet climate about 4 billion years ago, according to UCL - led research.