NASA Study Suggests Wet Mars Underground

NASA study points to underground habitats as most long lasting place for possible life to have existed on Mars.

A new interpretation of years of mineral-mapping data, from more than 350 sites on Mars examined by European and NASA orbiters, suggests Martian environments with abundant liquid water on the surface existed only during short episodes. These episodes occurred toward the end of a period of hundreds of millions of years during which warm water interacted with subsurface rocks. This has implications about whether life existed on Mars and how the Martian atmosphere has changed.

NASA Study of Clays Suggests Watery Mars Underground - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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