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Nasa Mars Research Helps Find Buried Water on Earth


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Radar sounding technology developed to explore the subsurface of Mars may soon be used to find water buried deep beneath Earth's deserts.

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech

A NASA-led team has used radar sounding technology developed to explore the subsurface of Mars to create high-resolution maps of freshwater aquifers buried deep beneath an Earth desert, in the first use of airborne sounding radar for aquifer mapping.

From Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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