Mars' upper and middle crust below Insight lander (IMAGE)

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Mars' upper and middle crust below Insight lander

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A cutout of the Martian interior beneath NASA's Insight lander. The top 5 kilometers of the crust appear to be dry, but a new study provides evidence for a zone of fractured rock 11.5-20 km below the surface that is full of liquid water — more than the volume proposed to have filled hypothesized ancient Martian oceans. (Illustration credit: J)

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James Tuttle Keane and Aaron Rodriquez, courtesy of Scripps Institute of Oceanography

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