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Scientists discover ‘hidden water’ just three feet below Mars’ Grand Canyon

Post by Halafi Mengedi » 17 Dec 2021, 00:17

Amhara has the prove to show Atse Zerayakob was living there. The Mars name was "Marsiye" like Tsegede-Tegedye, Tselemti-Telemt, Addis Ababa-Addis Abebye.....etc???


The European Space Agency’s ExoMars orbiter has found evidence of a huge deposit of water underneath the Valles Marineris Martian canyon system, which is one of the Solar System’s largest canyons—about five times as deep and ten times as long as the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

Mars’ own Grand Canyon, Valles Marineris, is shown on the surface of the planet in this composite image made aboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft - Getty Images
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Mars’ own Grand Canyon, Valles Marineris, is shown on the surface of the planet in this composite image made aboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft - Getty Images
Scientists assessed data recorded by the Trace Gas Orbiter’s (TGO) Fine-Resolution Epithermal Neutron Detector (Frend) instrument, which maps hydrogen in the uppermost metre of Mars’ soil—a measure of water content—to make the discovery.

The research, accepted for publication in the journal Icarus, revealed an area in the canyon, about the size of the Netherlands, with an unusually large amount of hydrogen.

“Assuming the hydrogen we see is bound into water molecules, as much as 40 per cent of the near-surface material in this region appears to be water,” study lead author Igor Mitrofanov of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, said.

“With TGO we can look down to one metre below this dusty layer and see what’s really going on below Mars’ surface—and, crucially, locate water-rich ‘oases’ that couldn’t be detected with previous instruments,” Dr Mitrofanov added.

While previous studies have found hints of water deeper underground in the Red Planet’s mid-latitudes, as well as evidence of deep pools of liquid water under the Martian south pole, these potential deposits are few kilometres below ground and less accessible to future exploration than any found just below the surface.






















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Re: Scientists discover ‘hidden water’ just three feet below Mars’ Grand Canyon

Post by Hawdian » 17 Dec 2021, 00:53

It definitely has more water than Tigray.

Are you planning to move there since all neighbours don't seem to like you?

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