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Science
Matthew Rozsa

Water on Mars found buried deep

For as long as humans have dreamt of discovering alien life forms, they have looked to Earth’s red dusty neighbor Mars as a prime contender. Astrobiologists know that water once existed on Mars, and given that water is considered an essential ingredient to creating life as we know it, it strengthens the chances that life forms could have previously existed on Mars… and may even still exist there today.

Now a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that there is a large amount of groundwater on Mars. To find it, just dig beneath the surface.

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