Enormous, Earth-Like Magma Systems Once Existed Inside Mars
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Enormous, Earth-like magma systems once existed inside Mars
For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too complex to be written off as a dead world of simple basalt. Now a new look beneath the planet’s surface suggests that picture was far too neat. A study in Nature Astronomy argues that Mars once hosted vast, long-lived magmatic systems deep in its crust. These systems look strikingly similar to ones on Earth that help build …
For decades, Mars was considered a geologically dead desert with a stagnant, intact crust that precluded large-scale underground processes similar to Earth's. However, the analysis of seismic oscillations recorded in the bowels of the planet has completely refuted this theory.
A study published in Nature Astronomy questions our certainty about Martian geology and opens up new perspectives on the habitability of rocky planets. This study reveals that the Red Planet would have been home to immense underground magmatic systems, as complex as that of...
Mars does not actually have tect nical plates, but has the same geological complexity as the Earth.
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