New Studies Discovered “Liquid Lakes” On Planet Mars’ South Pole Indicating Possibility Of Alien Life

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After finding a various liquid bodies on Mars, the tantalizing possibility that water could exist on this planet that was previously believed not to have any form of life could actually come true.

A recent study that was published in the Nature Astronomy journal states that there is a subterranean reservoir of high levels of salt water near the red planet’s south pole. The existence of any body of water, much more a lake, makes scientists believe that this could be a sign of the planet housing its own native microscopic life, because of the simple co-relation of water to survival.


While there are still researchers that remain skeptical to Mars having liquid water, according to the findings made in 2018 in the mission to radar map the crust of the planet, this lends credibility when the Mars express robot orbiter made the discovery. It found the underground “lake” that is beneath layers of sediment in the south pole. This body of liquid is very much similar to the subglacial lakes that Greenland and Antartica have underneath ice sheets.

The study conducted in 2018 was a huge breakthrough in proving the existence of alien life in the universe, and specifically in Marts, but skeptics are still questioning scientists whether they have accumulated enough details to know for certain about the lake giving life.

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Thankfully, the latest studies that incorporated techniques used by the earth’s orbiting satellites to study the subterranean lakes under the Antarctic glaciers do confirm that the massive store of liquid which spans about 15 miles does actually exist on Mars.

The subglacial lakes found in Iceland and Antartica are teeming up with bacterial life, which makes scientists believe that the Martian counterpart could also be thriving with their own bacteria. Elena Pettinelli, geophysics professor at Italy’s Roma Tre University, who led the research on this and the previous study said, “we are much more confident now. We did many more observations, and we processed the data completely differently.”


The data gathered also shows that the bodies of water are filled with hyper saline solutions, or a type of water that is filled with a thick concentrate of calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium. This allows the water to keep its liquid form, despite the extremely cold temperature in the planet’s south pole.

Because the pools could be filled with water, they are quite likely to have microbial alien life, which could possibly be the last remnants of life that existed billions of years ago, if Mars had oceanic water on its surface like Earth does.

Once this initial discovery is proven, this will be the first time that water is found on the red planet.

 

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