Mars′ lost water might be in minerals in crust — study | News | DW
Mars landing: Riveting video from the Red Planet What happened to the water? "We're saying that the crust forms what we call hydrated minerals, so minerals that actually have water in their crystal structure," Eva Scheller, lead author of the paper in Science magazine told AFP news agency. Mars is believed to to have once had enough water to cover the whole planet, to a depth of anything from around 100 to 1,500 meters (330 to 44,920 feet). As the planet lost its magnetic field, the atmosphere was stripped away and led to the loss of water. The study suggests that anywhere between 30 to 9...
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