Mars May Have Vast Magma Systems Beneath Its Surface
Researchers say the buried layer could mark a vast magma system that reprocessed Martian crust and may have boosted surface mineral availability.
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Mars may have once been filled with seas of magma that made the Red Planet habitable
Deep oceans of magma once sloshed about inside the crust of Mars, seismic measurements taken by NASA's InSight mission suggest. The marsquakes detected by InSight show a boundary 15 miles (24 kilometers) deep between two different types of rock that were formed by enormous pools of magma. The presence of these magma pools could completely change what we thought we knew about the early development of Mars.Already, scientists say the discovery cou…
New clues from the interior of Mars change the image of the red planet: Under its crust might once have worked huge magma systems.
Mars May Have Vast Magma Systems Beneath Its Surface
Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted widespread, Earth-like magmatic systems deep beneath its surface – despite the planet lacking the plate tectonics long thought necessary for this kind of geological complexity. The findings, published June 26th in Nature Astronomy, reveal fascinating new possibilities for how rocky planets become habitable.
New Evidence Suggests Vast Hidden Magma Systems Inside Mars
Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems deep beneath its surface – despite the planet lacking the plate tectonics long thought necessary for this kind of geological complexity. The findings, published today in Nature Astronomy, reveal fascinating new possibilities for how rocky planets become habitable. Mars is often described as a ‘stagnant lid’ planet: unlike…
A new scientific discovery is shaking up the accepted understanding of the internal structure of Mars: Researchers have found evidence that complex magma systems, similar to those present on Earth, lurk beneath the planet's surface - even though Mars lacks active plate tectonics. The study, recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy, is based on seismic data collected by NASA's InSight probe, which operated on Mars between 2018 and 2022.…
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