This twists my knickers.
I studied the first maps of Mars that NASA published in its depository libraries in the early 1980s. These were bound paper books of enormous size – about 3x3 feet if I recall. And to my untrained eye, it was obvious – I do mean OBVIOUS – that that there were active water processes working on the surface of Mars.
Ever since then, NASA comes out occasionally with a hint that there "might be water".
How long, O Lord, how long?
If only Kekistan had been allowed to explore…