Is Mars Storing Its Water Underground?

Is Mars Storing its Water Underground?

Mars' oceans, lakes, and rivers are long gone. They've left behind evidence of their time here in river channels, deltas, paleolakes, and other features. The water's existence isn't a mystery, but its whereabouts is. Did it disappear into space, or did it retreat into underground aquifers?

The Missing Link In The Early Martian Water Cycle - Astrobiology

Billions of years ago, water flowed on the surface of Mars. But scientists have an incomplete picture of how the Red Planet’s water cycle worked. That could soon change after two graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin filled a large gap in knowledge about Mars’ water cycle — specifically, the part between […] The post The Missing Link In The Early Martian Water Cycle appeared first on Astrobiology.

The water cycle on the primitive Mars was complex, when today's red planet was a humid world, specifically the part between surface water and groundwater. ...