Ocean with life-giving liquid water found on Martian subsurface in stunning discovery

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SINGAPORE – A study released Monday using data from NASA ’s Mars InSight lander shows evidence of liquid water far below the surface of the fourth planet, advancing the search for life there and showing what might have happened to Mars ’ ancient oceans.

“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,” said one of the authors, Vashan Wright of the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “The ingredients for life as we know it exist in the Martian subsurface if these interpretations are correct.”

There is no way to directly study water that deep beneath the surface of Mars, but the authors said the results “have implications for understanding Mars’ water cycle, determining the fates of past surface water, searching for past or extant life, and assessing in situ resource utilization for future missions”.

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