CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Mars may be drenched beneath its surface, with enough water hiding in the cracks of underground rocks to form a global ocean, new research suggests.
Associated PressThis image provided by NASA shows the InSight Mars lander in a selfie photo composite on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Mars may be drenched beneath its surface, with enough water hiding in the cracks of underground rocks to form a global ocean, new research suggests.
This water — believed to be seven miles to 12 miles down in the Martian crust — most likely would have seeped from the surface billions of years ago when Mars harbored rivers, lakes and possibly oceans, according to the lead scientist, Vashan Wright of the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
"Instead, our findings mean that there are environments that could possibly be habitable," he said in an email. If InSight's location at Elysium Planitia near Mars' equator is representative of the rest of the red planet, the underground water would be enough to fill a global ocean a mile or so deep, Wright said.
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