Fascinating article suggesting the possibility of an ancient ocean covering a large portion of Mars.
Space.com: Mars' Missing Ocean: A New Look at the Northern Plains
"It's very difficult to prove the positive and it's difficult to say there never was any water there. We have a lot of other indications that inundation of the northern plains to some degree or other, by some processes related to water, possibly mud flows, has occurred during martian history. But it's difficult to establish that in an absolute way that will get the whole community to believe it."
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