Researchers have found evidence of a large reservoir of liquid water beneath the surface of Mars, enough to fill oceans on the planet’s surface.
The researchers said that the reservoir is located in small cracks and pores in the rocks, in the middle of the Martian crust, at a depth between 11.5 and 20 kilometers, noting that it is a great challenge to ‘ digging a hole one kilometer deep, according to legend. international media.
Based on data from NASA’s InSight rover, scientists believe that the amount of groundwater could be enough to cover the entire surface of the planet, at a depth of between one and two kilometers.
“Understanding the water cycle on Mars is critical,” said Vashan Wright, a former postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, who is now a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. “It’s a useful starting point for determining where and how much water is.”
Scientists have sent many probes and spacecraft to Mars to find out what happened to the water that was present on Mars, about three billion years ago, and whether or not there is life on the planet. there before. (wham)
