Looking over the dusty expanse of a Martian lava plain, some 87 million kilometers away, NASA's Mars Insight lander may have just sent home its last view of the red planet.
. This information can help scientists better understand the impact history of Mars – a history that can help explain some of the planet's geological and atmospheric characteristics.
But if there's volcanic activity inside Mars, that internal heating might keep subsurface lakes from freezing solid, enabling an environment in which microbial life could theoretically survive.
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