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Recent explosive volcanic deposit discovered around a fissure of the Cerberus Fossae system. It s located only 10 kilometres from the youngest large-impact crater on Mars, so the researchers speculate if the impact might have actually triggered the eruption. (NASA / JPL / MSSS / The Murray Lab)
A recent study of a fissure on the surface of Mars reveals what looks like volcanic activity as recently as 50,000 years ago. This could mean that warm magma beneath the surface, and groundwater we suspect is there, could provide a habitat for alien life.
This raises the question, if Mars has indigenous life, should humans go there?
Salty, viscous water with a yellow hue was extracted from rocks in OntarioCanva
The true age of the water was not immediately apparent to researchers - it wasn’t until investigating it further that the team came to realise the true magnitude of their findings.
When testing the water for chemicals and bacteria, tiny microbes, the kind only ever seen
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type of bacteria had never been recorded before on land, and was one of the first clues that the water source may be much older than first thought.
Samples were sent to the University of Oxford and tested using a mass spectrometer. The verifiers believed their equipment, some of the most advanced in the world, had broken when provided an average age of 1.6 billion years old.