A huge amount of water found under the surface of Mars

[staarker]

The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) hovering over Mars has detected a large amount of water in the Mars canyon system. The water found in the Marineris valleys is hidden beneath the surface of Mars.

The spacecraft was mapping the hydrogen – a measure of the water content in the topmost meter of Martian soil and stumbled upon its chemical remains. The discovered reservoir has an area of ​​over 45,000 square kilometers, which is close to the size of Haryana.

“Thanks to the capabilities of Trace Gas, we can look down one meter and find out what is happening under the surface of the planet and find water-rich ‘oases’ that could not be found in previous studies,” said Igor Mitrofanov from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

The discovery was made by the high-resolution epithermal neutron detector telescope (FREND) aboard the spacecraft. He identified an area with unusually high amounts of hydrogen in the Mariner Valley canyon system.

“If we assume that the hydrogen we see is bound to water molecules, then up to 40% of the surface material in this area is apparently water,” added Igor Mitrofanov.
https://anomalien.com/a-huge-amount-of- ... e-of-mars/

[jeremydeth]

Makes you wonder what else is living in those waters. To me, NASA should be spending most of its effort into trying to find out what lives in these waters. Not only for Mars but also for other planes.

[crazy_nut]

There is so much that NASA is not telling us. If science says that water is one of the major ingredients in the making of life, then shouldn't this mean that there is a good chance that life exist there?