NASA’s InSight Lander Data Points To Subsurface Liquid Water On Mars

Mars InSight lander.

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—Findings from NASA’s Mars InSight lander suggest that much of the water that covered the red planet’s now desert-like surface more than 3 billion years ago currently resides in liquid water-saturated pores of the planet’s mid-crust. If InSight’s findings at Elysium Planitia, an equatorial...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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