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Mars might hold enough oxygen under its surface for life

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Mars might hold enough oxygen under its surface for life

We've long considered the improbable probability of life on Mars, yet it's under the planet's surface where those odds look more grounded.

Another investigation distributed in Nature proposes that the salty water which subsists under Mars' surface could hold enough oxygen to help the sort of life which prospered on Earth billions of years prior.

While there are hints of ice profound under the planet's surface, the sheer shortage of oxygen in Mars' air has lessened any conviction that life could blossom with the planet.

"We found that brackish waters on Mars can contain enough oxygen for organisms to inhale," NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) hypothetical physicist Vlada Stamenkovi?, the lead creator of the paper, told AFP.

"This completely alters our comprehension of the potential for life on Mars, today and in the past ... We never imagined that oxygen could assume a job for life on Mars because of its irregularity in the environment, about 0.14 percent."

In 2016, the Curiosity Mars wanderer discovered elevated amounts of manganese oxides, a disclosure which focuses to the probability of the planet having more barometrical oxygen then than it does now.

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