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Enormous hidden ocean discovered under Mars could contain life


Scientists examining data from NASA's InSight Lander have revealed the likely presence of an underground reservoir containing enough liquid to cover the planet with a mile of water.

The massive underground reservoir, discovered using seismic data taken by NASA's InSight Lander, contains enough liquid to cover the entire planet with a mile of water. Trapped inside a layer of fractured rock 7 to 13 miles (11.5 to 20 kilometers) beneath the Red Planet's outer crust, reaching the water would require a drilling operation that has yet-to-be achieved on Earth. Currently, reaching the secret ocean is comfortably outside humanity's technical abilities (the deepest hole ever dug on Earth, the Kola Superdeep Borehole, only burrows 7.6 miles into our planet's surface) yet it's not the only place scientists are searching for life on Mars.

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