{"id":2760,"date":"2024-08-13T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/mars-could-have-enough-water-stored-underground-to-cover-the-planets-surface-scientists-say\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T01:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T01:00:39","slug":"mars-could-have-enough-water-stored-underground-to-cover-the-planets-surface-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/mars-could-have-enough-water-stored-underground-to-cover-the-planets-surface-scientists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars could have enough water stored underground to cover the planet\u2019s surface, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists say there could be water on Mars underground, and more than enough to fill the planet\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from California universities San Diego and Berkeley say evidence suggests there is a large reservoir of liquid water under the planet\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>Using data from NASA\u2019s InSight lander \u2013 which carried out a four-year-long mission that ended in 2022 \u2013 they wrote that the amount of groundwater could cover all of <strong>Mars<\/strong> to a depth of one to two kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>But the researchers warned it isn\u2019t straightforward to find it. They believe the water is located in the rocks that form the midcrust of the planet, and is around 11.5 to 20km below the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Despite how inaccessible the water is, study author and assistant professor at UC San Diego\u2019s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Vashan Wright, said the evidence it\u2019s there gives major indications to the evolution of the red planet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>He said: \u201cUnderstanding the Martian water cycle is critical for understanding the evolution of the climate, surface and interior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA useful starting point is to identify where water is and how much is there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researchers used InSight\u2019s data collected from the ground on Mars, including on the speed of Marsquake waves, and used a model to determine that the presence of liquid water in the crust most plausibly explained the data.<\/p>\n<p>They wrote: \u201cWhile available data are best explained by a water-saturated mid-crust, our results highlight the value of geophysical measurements and better constraints on the mineralogy and composition of Mars\u2019 crust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long tried to find water on Mars, with theories suggesting it had escaped into space. But the new evidence suggests \u201cMars\u2019 crust need not have lost most of its water via atmospheric escape,\u201d the writers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiquid water in the pores of the mid-crust also requires high enough permeability and warm enough temperatures in the shallow crust to permit exchange between the surface and greater depths,\u201d they add.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists say there could be water on Mars underground, and more than enough to fill&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}