Furthermore, the study highlights the potential for ancient groundwater systems in Mars’ southern highlands, suggesting that these reservoirs of liquid water may have been periodically accessed by volcanic activity or impacts, leading to episodic flooding events on the surface

Was there water on ancient Mars?

Dr Cavosie said the research showed that even though Mars’ crust endured massive meteorite impacts that caused major surface upheaval, water was present during the early Pre-Noachian period, prior to about 4.1 billion years ago

there underground life on Mars?

While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a potential home beneath frozen water on the planet’s surface

Did they find actual water on Mars?

Large amounts of underground ice have been found on Mars; the volume of water detected is equivalent to the volume of water in Lake Superior.

Could we build underground on Mars?Mars lacks a magnetic field and radiation levels on the surface are dangerously high. The surface is cold. Building underground would provide radiation shielding and thermal insulation. Tunnels would be made by The Boring Company

NASA find an ocean on Mars?A cutout of the Martian interior beneath NASA’s Insight lander. The top 5 kilometers of the crust appear to be dry, but a new study provides evidence for a zone of fractured rock 11.5-20 km below the surface that is full of liquid water — more than the volume proposed to have filled hypothesized ancient Martian oceans

Mars could have had ancient groundwater system, study reveals big secret

By analyzing factors such as crustal thickness, radioactive heat generation, and mantle heat flow, they simulated how heat affected potential crustal melting and groundwater stability.

new study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that variations in Mars’ crustal thickness during its ancient history may have significantly influenced the planet’s geological and hydrological evolution. 

Led by Cin-Ty Lee from Rice University, the research challenges long-held assumptions about the red planet, suggesting that its thick southern highlands crust, which can reach up to 80 kilometers, played a crucial role in generating granitic magmas and supporting vast underground aquifers

The study focuses on the Noachian and early Hesperian periods, approximately 3 to 4 billion years ago, when Mars’ crust was hot enough to undergo partial melting due to radioactive heating. 

This process likely produced large amounts of silicic magmas, such as granites, and created thermal conditions conducive to stable groundwater aquifers beneath a frozen surface layer. “Our findings indicate that Mars’ crustal processes were far more dynamic than previously thought,” stated Lee.

The research team employed advanced thermal modeling to reconstruct the thermal state of Mars’ crust during these ancient periods.

The implications of this research are profound. The presence of granitic magmas on Mars indicates that the planet could produce such rocks without plate tectonics, a feature commonly associated with Earth

The research provides a roadmap for future missions aimed at exploring Martian geology and searching for signs of ancient life in regions where granitic rocks or water reservoirs may be found

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