Mars' Water Abundance Questioned

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What happened to all the water on Mars? Here's why the debate continues

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A new challenge to a recent theory surrounding vast amounts of water stored beneath the Martian surface suggests the Red Planet may not be hiding liquid water beneath its crust after all.

In 2024 , a team led by Vaughan Wright at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography , the University of California San Diego determined that a mid-crust made up of fractured, water-saturated igneous rock best explains data collected by NASA ’s now-retired Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy , and Heat Transport (InSight) mission.

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