Methane Spike on Mars Hints at Water Reservoir Frozen Deep Underneath the Surface

Data from spacecrafts on Mars state that the methane spike may be owing to tectonic faults in deep buried permafrost, which is what USC researchers reckon too.

Mars, it seems, might have a lot more water seeping underneath its barren, red hostility. The latest development is pertaining to the debacle around Mars’ atmospheric constituency, and the possibility of water and microbial life on the planet. This took a new turn, when NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered a strong spike in methane within Mars’ atmosphere, back in June 2013. A day later, the Mars Express corroborated the same observation, through its onboard spectrometer. This, naturally, sparked interest and excitement about potential alien microbes still present somewhere within the Martian body. The studies were published recently. [ReadMore]