NEW YORK: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in a latest research found that the surface of Mars once had a great amount of water. It was revealed that water on Mars was more than our Arctic Ocean on Earth, in fact. Scientists believe that 4.3 billion years ago, Mars had enough water to cover the entire surface of the planet in 450 feet of water.
It’s why NASA is so interested in the Red Planet. It’s not just our neighbor, it’s also the planet in our solar system that appears most likely to host life.
NASA scientists have found that the surface of Mars held more water than is found in the Arctic Ocean here on Earth. The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the five major oceanic divisions.
About 87 percent of that water has been lost to space, researchers believe, although they are not entirely sure what exactly happened to the water.
To make this finding, scientists used ground-based observatories that measure water signatures in the Martian atmosphere, and compared them to the water ratio in a Mars meteorite that is 4.5 billion years old.
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