A pioneering NASA robot detected over a thousand quakes on Mars. It also may have revealed a huge reservoir of water.
Planetary scientists used unprecedented data collected by the space agency’s InSight lander, which recorded geologic activity on Mars for four years, to reveal that water may exist many miles down in the Martian crust. The research, which invites further investigation, may explain where bounties of the Red Planet’s water went as the world dried up, and suggests that Mars may host hospitable environs for life.
On our rocky planet, bounties of water exist in the subsurface. Why not on Mars, too?
“Exactly! We identified the Martian equivalent of deep groundwater on Earth,” Michael Manga, a planetary scientist at UC Berkeley who coauthored the new research, told Mashable.
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