They identify another huge layer of water on Mars

Tuesday is becoming more and more interesting, in previous publications about Mars I told you that a series of researchers claimed that they had located a lot of water on Mars, liquid water, in fact, the researchers talked about oceans, a reserve of water that is found very deep.

That August investigation said that this water was between about 10 to 20 km below the surface, remember that Mars is colder than the Earth, I mean the interior of Mars is somewhat colder than the Earth and the crust of Mars is thicker than the Earth's, this was thanks to the data from NASA's InSight lander whose main mission was to work as an advanced seismometer.

Martian earthquakes are not very powerful because the crust is cold, it is very rigid, it lasts a long time, that is curious, InSight has recorded an earthquake that lasted 90 minutes or 95 minutes with a soccer game, luckily they are not very powerful, they reach up to four level 4, but of course an earthquake of four, although it is not powerful, lasts 95 minutes, but by analyzing those earthquakes they managed to find out and come to the conclusion that there was a large mass of water under the surface of between 10 and 20 km deep.

According to researchers, if all that water could be brought to the surface, it could cover the entire red planet with a layer of water between 1 to 2 km deep, so we are literally talking about oceans but of course drilling 10 km is drilling a lot. Even on Earth it is a very complicated task, the super deep tail well in Russia is the one that currently holds the record with 12,262 m deep, the Chinese recently announced that they were drilling a well that would reach 10,000 m deep, I think they have already reached 10,000 and they may shoot a little more, maybe they are trying to beat the record, but both are very particular and very complex cases.

An investigation that was published on April 25 is an advance, it is an improvement on last year's research, in fact, they have identified another layer of water but more interesting, because it is much closer to the surface, it would be a layer of liquid water between 520 to 780 m thick and it would be between 5.4 to 8 km deep, it is already an easier depth to reach 5400 meters, still difficult but not impossible, that represents the amount of water that they have calculated that exists in that layer several times the water that contains the entire Antarctic ice sheet. So we are also talking about an ocean-sized level.

They also did it by analyzing the seismic data from NASA's InSight mission, it is a shame not to have sent more seismometers because it is incredible what can be under Mars, and we are talking about liquid water, not frozen water because there is also frozen water, there is it at the poles of Mars, there is it under the Martian soil, under the soil closest to the surface, as shown in the image above, which is an impact crater, a not very large meteorite that impacted, the white spots. What you see is ice blocks of ice that, due to the impact, brought it to the outside because much of the soil on Mars is permafrost. It has permafrost.

There has been water ice frozen there for millions of years, under a layer of dust and rocks, perhaps a few meters or sometimes a little more, but there are large masses of water ice under the dusty surface of Mars.

This is not strange, it happens on Earth, a large part of the water on Earth is below the surface, we call it aquifers, which is normal, the oceans and seas are not hermetic ponds, the water filters and goes down and filters down as far as it can go, depending of course on how soon a very hot layer arrives, it ends up turning into vapor and ends up coming out on the other side, but in principle it filters and goes down as far as it can go down, and on Mars the same thing happened.

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