Oldest Water on Earth Found Deep Underground
16/05/2013 09:38
By Charles Q. Choi, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor | LiveScience.com
May 15, 2013
A pocket of water some 2.6 billion years old — the most ancient pocket of water known by far, older even than the dawn of multicellular life — has now been discovered in a mine 2 miles below the Earth's surface. The finding, announced in the May 16 issue of the journal Nature, raises the tantalizing possibility that ancient life might be found deep underground not only within Earth, but in similar oases that may exist on Mars, the scientists who studied the water said. [Read more] ...