Water detected below Martian surface, researchers say
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"Significant amounts of water" have been found beneath the surface of Mars.
In a release, ESA said that the water was detected using the Trace Gas Orbiter's (TGO) Fine Resolution Epithermal Neutron Detector (FREND) instrument, which has the ability to detect hydrogen in the uppermost meter of the planet’s soil.
"FREND revealed an area with an unusually large amount of hydrogen in the colossal Valles Marineris canyon system: assuming the hydrogen we see is bound into water molecules, as much as 40% of the near-surface material in this region appears to be water," the Russian Academy of Sciences Space Research Institute's Igor Mitrofanov said in a statement.
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