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Gravity study gives insights into hidden features beneath lost ocean of Mars and rising Olympus Mons

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Mars has many hidden structures, such as ice deposits, but the features discovered in the northern polar plains are a mystery because they are covered with a thick and smooth sediment layer believed to be deposited on the ancient seabed.

The study also shows that active processes in the Martian mantle may be giving a boost to the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons .