Mars may hide oceans of water beneath its crust, study finds

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Oceans' worth of water may remain buried in the crust of Mars, and not lost to space as previously long thought, a new study finds.

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[rod]

"Since there is life virtually everywhere on Earth where there is water, this history of water on Mars raises the possibility that Mars was once home to life — and might host it still."

My observation. There is a new report now out on how life got started on Earth. You need lightening bolts. How did early life on Earth start? It could have been lightning, study says., https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...ightning-study-says/ar-BB1eEg43?ocid=msedgdhp, "According to the research, billions of years ago, the bolts blasting into the Earth would have unlocked the necessary minerals for the basis of life to begin. “This work helps us understand how life may have formed on Earth and how it could still be forming on other, Earth-like planets,” said study lead author Benjamin Hess of Yale University."

Lightning strikes as a major facilitator of prebiotic phosphorus reduction on early Earth, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21849-2, 16-March-2021.

My observation. Goodbye asteroids and meteorites as delivering the stuff of life to the primordial Earth, hello lightening bolts. Mars may need the same

 

[KC Strom]

Hi Rod.

As I read this article the thread "The Green Rules - Objectivity and Subjectivity" came to mind.

Falsifiable? Chemistry - yes, Life - no.

Is science a mixed bag?

 

[rod]

Hi Rod.

As I read this article the thread "The Green Rules - Objectivity and Subjectivity" came to mind.

Falsifiable? Chemistry - yes, Life - no.

Is science a mixed bag?

My answer is yes. Using the scientific method, no one has observed non-living matter evolve into life here or on Mars. Lightening bolts hit Earth regularly too, something we can measure and observe.