{"id":30852,"date":"2024-08-13T03:14:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T08:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30852"},"modified":"2024-08-13T03:14:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T08:14:51","slug":"mars-study-suggests-an-oceans-worth-of-water-may-be-hiding-beneath-the-red-dusty-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30852","title":{"rendered":"Mars study suggests an ocean’s worth of water may be hiding beneath the red dusty surface"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mars<\/a> may be drenched beneath its surface, with enough water hiding in the cracks of underground rocks to form a global ocean, new research suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The findings released Monday are based on seismic measurements from NASA\u2019s Mars InSight lander<\/a>, which detected more than 1,300 marsquakes before shutting down two years ago.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This water \u2014 believed to be seven miles to 12 miles (11.5 kilometers to 20 kilometers) down in the Martian crust \u2014 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\u2019s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just because water still may be sloshing around inside Mars does not mean it holds life, Wright said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInstead, our findings mean that there are environments that could possibly be habitable,\u201d he said in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His team combined computer models with InSight readings including the quakes\u2019 velocity in determining underground water was the most likely explanation. The results appeared Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If InSight\u2019s location at Elysium Planitia near Mars\u2019 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 (1 kilometer to 2 kilometers) deep, Wright said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would take drills and other equipment to confirm the presence of water and seek out any potential signs of microbial life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the InSight lander is no longer working, scientists continue to analyze the data collected from 2018 through 2022, in search of more information about Mars\u2019 interior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wet almost all over more than 3 billion years ago, Mars is thought to have lost its surface water as its atmosphere thinned, turning the planet into the dry, dusty world known today. Scientists theorize much of this ancient water escaped out into space or remained buried below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. The findings released Monday are based on seismic measurements from NASA\u2019s Mars InSight lander, which detected more than 1,300 marsquakes before shutting down two years ago. This water \u2014 believed to be seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5783],"tags":[30038,21482,1202,30039,30040],"class_list":["post-30852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-mars","tag-ocean","tag-research","tag-subsurface","tag-water-volume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30854,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30852\/revisions\/30854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}