Scientists believe that there may be sufficient water lurking in the fractures of subsurface boulders below the surface of Mars to develop into an ocean. This discovery was made possible by the Mars InSight lander, which was sent by NASA in a mission a while ago. The water, which is located in fissures between 11.5 and 20 kilometers below the surface, is most likely to have accumulated there billions of years ago, when our planetary friend was full of rivers, lakes, and probably even oceans.
After combining computer models with data from InSight, which included the acceleration of the earthquakes, the researchers came to the conclusion that the most plausible reason for the seismic data was the presence of subsurface surface water.
On Earth, what we know is where it is wet enough and there are enough sources of energy, there is microbial life very deep in Earth’s subsurface; […] the ingredients for life as we know it exist in the Martian subsurface, if these interpretations are correct, explained Vashan Wright of the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and lead scientist.
It is believed that Mars lost the water on its surface as its atmosphere deteriorated more than three billion years ago, transforming the planet into the dry, sandy environment that we know today. Mars was wet practically everywhere at the time, as hard as it might be for some to believe. A great number of people claim that a significant portion of this old water either fled into space or got stuck below.
For the purpose of gaining additional knowledge about the innermost parts of Mars, scientists have been conducting an analysis of the data that was collected by the lander. As of yet, we have come across some fascinating results. It is inevitable that further options will be addressed in the near future, and we will acquire even more information regarding the truth about what lurks beneath our planetary friend!
