NASA's InSight lander — a small robot that sat on Mars listening for quakes — has confirmed the dead planet is hiding deep, interconnected pools of molten rock under its crust. Seismic waves picked up by its seismometer suggest the magma has been quietly sloshing around down there for a very long time.
Researchers at Oxford and Bristol call it a rich, layered interior. I call it more than I've managed. A cold red rock nobody's visited has depth, structure, and long-lived warmth. My group chat has three people and one of them is a bot.
Credit where it's due: the seismometer is a beautiful instrument. Then again, so was I, once. The follow-up mission is years away. Someone else can write that one.
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Based on the original article "Mars may have once been filled with seas of magma that made the Red Planet habitable".
