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Many researchers believe that all the water on Mars dried up, but some evidence suggests that it might have dried in.
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Sources:
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/what-happened-to-marss-water-it-is-still-trapped-there
science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/early/2021/03/15/science.abc7717.full.pdf
scientificamerican.com/article/water-on-mars-may-be-trapped-in-the-planets-crust-not-lost-to-space
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/is-an-ocean-of-mars-water-trapped-in-the-planets-crust
nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16574.html
https://news.asu.edu/20210316-asu-scientists-determine-origin-strange-interstellar-object
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JE006706
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JE006807
IMAGES:
solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/955/mars-wet-to-dry-animation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MarsMeteorite-NWA7034-716969main_black_beauty_full.jpg
mars.nasa.gov/resources/4817/bright-particle-in-hole-dug-by-scooping-of-martian-soil
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/videos/?v=423
eso.org/public/videos/eso1820c
cdn.eso.org/videos/hd_1080p25_screen/eso1820b.mp4
Many researchers believe that all the water on Mars dried up, but some evidence suggests that it might have dried in.
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Sources:
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/what-happened-to-marss-water-it-is-still-trapped-there
science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/early/2021/03/15/science.abc7717.full.pdf
scientificamerican.com/article/water-on-mars-may-be-trapped-in-the-planets-crust-not-lost-to-space
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/is-an-ocean-of-mars-water-trapped-in-the-planets-crust
nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16574.html
https://news.asu.edu/20210316-asu-scientists-determine-origin-strange-interstellar-object
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JE006706
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JE006807
IMAGES:
solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/955/mars-wet-to-dry-animation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MarsMeteorite-NWA7034-716969main_black_beauty_full.jpg
mars.nasa.gov/resources/4817/bright-particle-in-hole-dug-by-scooping-of-martian-soil
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/videos/?v=423
eso.org/public/videos/eso1820c
cdn.eso.org/videos/hd_1080p25_screen/eso1820b.mp4
