New Mars study suggests an ocean's worth of water may be hiding beneath the red dusty surface

(12 Aug 2024)
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1. Animation of InSight Lander
2. NASA employees celebrating a successful landing

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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Vashan Wright, Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography:
“So the purpose of the InSight mission was to learn about the evolution of Mars as a planet.”

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4. Various of InSight Lander being built

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5. Various satellite images of InSight Lander on Mars

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Vashan Wright, Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography:
“For work that I’ve been a part of, the most interesting finding is this present one that there is large amounts of liquid water in the sub surface of the planet itself.”

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7. Various satellite images of InSight Lander on Mars

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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Vashan Wright, Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography:
“The liquid water is roughly eleven to twenty kilometers beneath the sub surface and getting that liquid water would be quite challenging. For example, on Earth you often have to circulate fluids, whether that be liquid water or mud to make drilling a little bit easier. You also need the power capabilities and you need to bring those things on Mars.”

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Mars – 1 December 2018
9. Various satellite images of InSight Lander on Mars

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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Vashan Wright, Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography:
“Water affects just about everything about our planets evolution. In Mars we get to see a water cycle without humans. We know that water is a key ingredient for life as we know it.”
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Vashan Wright, Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography:
“It means that it’s potentially habitable in the mid crust of Mars. Mars once looked like Earth 3 billion years ago and now it doesn’t. It’s dry and it’s desolate and so a big question is where is the water? Where did it go? And so finding it there in the volumes that we found it is really important and exciting.”

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12. Animation of InSight Lander
STORYLINE:
A new study suggests Mars may be drenched beneath its surface, with enough water hiding in the cracks of underground rocks to form a global ocean.

The findings, published Monday, are based on computer modeling as well as seismic measurements from NASA’s InSight lander.

The spacecraft detected more than 1,300 marsquakes before shutting down two years ago.

Scientists say the water is believed to be seven miles to 12 miles down in the Martian crust.

It most likely would have seeped from the surface billions of years ago when Mars harbored rivers and lakes.

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