Subsurface Oceans on Mars? NASA’s InSight Uncovers Vast Reservoir of Liquid Water

Image caption: A cutout of the Martian interior beneath NASA’s Insight lander. […] Image credit: James Tuttle Keane and Aaron Rodriquez, courtesy of Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Article by University of California – Berkeley. SciTechDaily – August 13, 2024. Research article: PNAS.

Geophysicists using seismic data from NASA’s Insight lander have discovered a significant underground water reservoir on Mars, potentially enough to have once filled ancient oceans.

This reservoir, trapped within the mid-crust of Mars, suggests that the red planet’s water did not entirely escape into space but was absorbed into its crust, altering previous theories about Martian aridity and possibly providing a habitat that could support life. […]

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