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Bookmark or Share- Mars Ocean Hypothesis Hits the Shore | News | AstrobiologyWhile the suggestion that Mars at one time had oceans cannot be ruled out, the foundation for the “ocean hypothesis” developed in the 1980s on the basis of suspected shorelines appears now to require a broader scan of any apparent beachfront real estate on Mars.
- Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. It’s just too deep to tap.Using seismic activity to probe the interior of Mars, geophysicists have found evidence for a large underground reservoir of liquid water — enough to fill oceans on the planet’s surface. The data from NASA’s Insight lander allowed the scientists to estimate that the amount of groundwater could cover the entire planet to a depth of between ...
- What Happened to Mars's Water? It is Still Trapped ThereThe Caltech/JPL team found that around four billion years ago, Mars was home to enough water to have covered the whole planet in an ocean about 100 to 1,500 meters deep; a volume roughly equivalent to half of Earth's Atlantic Ocean. But, by a billion years later, the planet was as dry as it is today.
- Water on Mars: The Story So Far | News | AstrobiologyNASA scientists have determined that a primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean and that the red planet has lost 87 percent of that water to space. Credit: NASA/GSFC. For decades, abundant research has suggested that rivers, lakes and seas once covered Mars billions of years ago.
- NASA SVS | Mars’ Ancient OceanNow, new isotopic measurements by researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center reveal that an ocean once covered approximately twenty percent of the Martian surface. This new picture of early Mars is considerably wetter than many previous estimates, raising the odds for the ancient habitability of the Red Planet.
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