{
  "id": 514132,
  "title": "The Odds of Finding Water on Mars",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/the-odds-of-finding-water-on-mars",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-10T22:57:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Universe Today",
    "slug": "universe-today",
    "url": "https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-odds-of-finding-water-on-mars"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mars has plenty of water, and almost all of it is in the wrong place. The poles are rich in ice, the equator, where you would actually want to land, has none within reach. That leaves the mid-latitudes, and until now the honest answer about what lies beneath them has been a bit of a shrug. Two new studies from the Planetary Science Institute have changed the shape of that answer. Rather than…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}