A team of planetary scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has discovered signs of liquid water on Mars. The journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported on the discovery.
Scientists analyzed data from NASA’s Mars Insight Lander, which conducted geophysical surveys of the planet from 2018 to 2022. The analysis showed the presence of water reservoirs in the Martian crust at a depth of about 10-20 kilometers.
Although frozen water has been found at Mars’ poles and there is evidence of vapor in the atmosphere, this is the first time liquid water has been detected on the planet.
But Martian groundwater is unlikely to help those planning to colonize the red planet. “It would be difficult even for Elon Musk to drill a 10-kilometer-deep well on Mars,” one researcher said. Scientists believe that if there are habitable environments on Mars, they could be underground.
Previous studies have shown that Mars had rivers, lakes and oceans in ancient times, and that the climate was warm and humid. But about 2 to 3 billion years ago, the planet became dry and wet when it lost the ability to hold a large atmosphere.
We previously wrote about the first sulfur crystals discovered on Mars. Read about it here.
Source: People Talk
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