Mars may hide oceans of water beneath its crust, study finds

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From Space.com:
"Oceans' worth of water may remain buried in the crust of Mars, and not lost to space as previously long thought, a new study finds."

https://www.space.com/mars-water-oceans ... eath-crust

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[GCoyote]

Wonder if this is attributable to the cooling of the Martian core and subsequent shut down of any geologic cycles related to it. The end of convection and volcanism would mean that any hydrate minerals in the crust would remain there indefinitely would it not? If so, only the surface minerals exposed to the Martian winds, seasonal temperature fluctuations, and solar radiation would lose their water to space.

Now I want to know how these conditions affect the probability of life arising and surviving as the planet's mass decreases.

[notFritzArgelander]

Wonder if this is attributable to the cooling of the Martian core and subsequent shut down of any geologic cycles related to it. The end of convection and volcanism would mean that any hydrate minerals in the crust would remain there indefinitely would it not? If so, only the surface minerals exposed to the Martian winds, seasonal temperature fluctuations, and solar radiation would lose their water to space.

Now I want to know how these conditions affect the probability of life arising and surviving as the planet's mass decreases.

At the risk of speculation I think that the chances of life arising and surviving remain unchanged, at least qualitatively. Quantitatively.... I don't know. I think that the chances of life arising are pretty good. The chances of surviving might be a tad improved. I can imagine that slowly locking the water into crustal rocks might allow evolutionary adaptations to work with that.

[GCoyote]

Didn't think of that. Thanks nFA!

[bearnard00]

As we can see Mars has water ( ice ) and according to some NASA`s research that was made in 2002 as far as I remember. So we might assume that such hypothesis that claims that there is more water under the crust